Adam Bede [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450668203321
• Autore: Elliot George
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Electric Book Company, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (709 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.8
• Soggetti: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Drama; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Book First""; ""Chapter I""; ""Chapter II""; ""Chapter III""; ""Chapter IV""; ""Chapter V""; ""Chapter VI""; ""Chapter VII""; ""Chapter VIII""; ""Chapter IX""; ""Chapter X""; ""Chapter XI""; ""Chapter XII""; ""Chapter XIII""; ""Chapter XIV""; ""Chapter XV""; ""Chapter XVI""; ""Book Second""; ""Chapter XVII""; ""Chapter XVIII""; ""Chapter XIX""; ""Chapter XX""; ""Chapter XXI""; ""Book Third""; ""Chapter XXII""; ""Chapter XXIII""; ""Chapter XXIV""; ""Chapter XXV""; ""Chapter XXVI""; ""Book Fourth""; ""Chapter XXVII""; ""Chapter XXVIII""; ""Chapter XXIX""; ""Chapter XXX""; ""Chapter XXXI""""Chapter XXXII""; ""Chapter XXXIII""; ""Chapter XXXIV""; ""Chapter XXXV""; ""Book Fifth""; ""Chapter XXXVI""; ""Chapter XXXVII""; ""Chapter XXXVIII""; ""Chapter XXXIX""; ""Chapter XL""; ""Chapter XLI""; ""Chapter XLII""; ""Chapter XLIII""; ""Chapter XLIV""; ""Chapter XLV""; ""Chapter XLVI""; ""Chapter XLVII""; ""Chapter XLVIII""; ""Book Sixth""; ""Chapter XLIX""; ""Chapter L""; ""Chapter LI""; ""Chapter LII""; ""Chapter LIII""; ""Chapter LIV""; ""Chapter LV""; ""Epilogue""
• Sommario/riassunto: The English Midlands at the turn of the eighteenth century is the setting for George Eliot's moving novel of three unworldly people trapped by unwise love.Adam Bede, a simple carpenter, loves too blindly; Hetty Sorrel, a coquettish beauty, loves too recklessly; and Arthur Donnithorn, a dashing squire loves too carelessly. Betrayed by their innocence, vanity, and imprudence, their foolish hearts lead them to a tragic triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution. With emotional sincerity and intellectual integrity, George Eliot probes ; deeply into the psychology of commonplace people caught in