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Title:

Adam Bede
 

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Classic

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1859-00-00 Penguin Classics  

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Blurb: 
This novel by George Eliot was first published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with a woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher. 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 what was new in this work of English fiction was the combination of deep human sympathy and rigorous moral judgment.