Adam BedeWith an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...'Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost. The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 27 |
Section 3 | 45 |
Section 4 | 70 |
Section 5 | 82 |
Section 6 | 88 |
Section 7 | 98 |
Section 8 | 115 |
Section 20 | 311 |
Section 21 | 317 |
Section 22 | 325 |
Section 23 | 336 |
Section 24 | 348 |
Section 25 | 362 |
Section 26 | 366 |
Section 27 | 370 |
Section 9 | 127 |
Section 10 | 151 |
Section 11 | 213 |
Section 12 | 222 |
Section 13 | 233 |
Section 14 | 240 |
Section 15 | 251 |
Section 16 | 267 |
Section 17 | 274 |
Section 18 | 285 |
Section 19 | 307 |
Section 28 | 376 |
Section 29 | 407 |
Section 30 | 415 |
Section 31 | 425 |
Section 32 | 443 |
Section 33 | 461 |
Section 34 | 465 |
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