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Adam Bede

George Eliot

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Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot. The story’s plot follows four characters rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but thoughtless Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover, and Dinah Morris, Hetty’s cousin, a fervent Methodist lay preacher.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Thy poor feyther 'ull ne'er anger thee no more; an' thy mother may's well go arter him—the sooner the better—for I'm no good to nobody now. One old coat 'ull do to patch another, but it's good for nought else. Thee'dst like to ha' a wife to mend thy clothes an' get thy victual, better nor thy old mother. An' I shall be nought but cumber, a-sittin' i' th' chimney-corner. (Adam winced and moved uneasily; he dreaded, of all things, to hear his mother speak of Hetty.) But if thy feyther had lived, he'd ne'er ha' wanted me to go to make room for another, for he could no more ha' done wi'out me nor one side o' the scissars can do wi'out th' other. Eh, we should ha' been both flung away together, an' then I shouldna ha' seen this day, an' one buryin' 'ud ha' done for us both."

Here Lisbeth paused, but Adam sat in pained silence—he could not speak otherwise than tenderly to his mother to-day, but he could not help being irritated by this plaint. It wa. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Adam Bede (1859) was George Eliot’s first novel, preceded only by her short fiction collection, Scenes of Clerical Life. The novel was recognized as a masterpiece from the start. The Times review stated that “the author takes rank among the masters of the craft” and describes “him” as possessing “ge

Q: why did I read this again?
A: because I love it

این اولین کتابی از جورج الیوت خوندم ودریک کلام شاهکار است.
ماجرای داستان حول محور ادام بید، ادام مردی ساده وعاقل وبسیار باهوش که دلبسته ی دختری به نام هتی سارل ولی هتی سارل هیچ اهمیتی به ادام بید نمی‌دهد و فقط بفکر تجملات واینکه با مردی ثروتمند ازدواج کند.
اوایل کتاب زیاد مجذوب داستان نمیشید ولی زمانی

The fact that George Eliot called this novel Adam Bede and not Hetty Sorrel proves that there is no justice in this world.

The novel itself, Eliot’s first, is a fairly quaint pastoral romance. Everyone’s in love with the wrong person. You get the picture. The plot doesn’t really wear the novel’s weig

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