Adam Bede

Author/Contributor(s):	Eliot, George
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	06/16/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

George Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. Eliot's penetrating portrayal of the interaction of ordinary people brought a new social realism to the novel, in which humor and tragedy co-exist, and fellow-feeling is the mainstay of human relationships. This is the first edition based on Eliot's final revision of the novel in 1861, using the definitive Clarendon text. Carol Martin is Professor of English at Boise State University.