Adam Bede (eBook)

George Eliot (Autor)

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2020
543 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406639858-3 (EAN)

Infos

The novel follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love "rectangle" among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. Adam, a local carpenter much admired for his integrity and intelligence, is in love with Hetty. She is attracted to Arthur, the local squire's charming grandson and heir, and falls in love with him. When Adam interrupts a tryst between them, Adam and Arthur fight. Arthur agrees to give up Hetty and leaves Hayslope to return to his militia. After he leaves, Hetty agrees to marry Adam but shortly before their marriage, discovers that she is pregnant. In desperation, she leaves in search of Arthur, unwilling to return to the village on account of the shame and ostracism she would have to endure.

Autor

George Eliot (1819-1880) is the pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, English novelist, poet, journalist and translator. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2020
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: British Literature • gender roles • historical fiction • Jane Austen • Jane Eyre • Love Rectangle • Methodist Lay Preacher • morality and ethics • romantic relationships • Rural community • Shame and Ostracism • Tess of the d'Urbervilles • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek • The Handmaid’s Tale • Toward the Midnight Sun • Unacknowledged Suitor • Vanity Fair • what the wind knows • When We Believed in Mermaids • where the crawdads sing