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George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love. Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her baubles—and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand. Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution. Only in the lovely Dinah Morris, a preacher, does Adam find his redemption.
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"Adam Bede has taken its place among the actual experiences and endurances of my life."
Charles Dickens
"A first-rate novel."
Times (London)
"Adam Bede was Eliot's first long novel. Its masterly realism-evident, for example, in the recording of Derbyshire dialect-brought to English fiction the same truthful observation of minute detail that John Ruskin was commending in the Pre-Raphaelites. But"
Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature