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Adam Bede
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
'I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of
men and things as they have mirrored themselves
in my mind/
George Eliot admirably achieves this aim in Adam Bede,
her first novel, as she subtly but realistically weaves
together the lives of four inhabitants in the close-knit
community of Hayslope. She creates a simple pastoral,
which tells of the seduction of the beautiful Hetty Sorrel -
a vain, self-seeking country girl - and the shattered hopes
and illusions of Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover.
The tone is one of such bitter-sweet melancholy that their
tragedy will deeply touch the reader, and even lead us to
sympathize with the candid but over-proud Captain
Donnithorne, Hetty's seducer, and to feel the severity of
his self-inflicted punishment.
Yet there is a powerful shining light in the novel,
embodied in the form of the Methodist preacher Dinah
Morris. Her loving affection and devout sense of what...
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Fülszöveg
Iti Popular
Adam Bede
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
'I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of
men and things as they have mirrored themselves
in my mind/
George Eliot admirably achieves this aim in Adam Bede,
her first novel, as she subtly but realistically weaves
together the lives of four inhabitants in the close-knit
community of Hayslope. She creates a simple pastoral,
which tells of the seduction of the beautiful Hetty Sorrel -
a vain, self-seeking country girl - and the shattered hopes
and illusions of Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover.
The tone is one of such bitter-sweet melancholy that their
tragedy will deeply touch the reader, and even lead us to
sympathize with the candid but over-proud Captain
Donnithorne, Hetty's seducer, and to feel the severity of
his self-inflicted punishment.
Yet there is a powerful shining light in the novel,
embodied in the form of the Methodist preacher Dinah
Morris. Her loving affection and devout sense of what
is right breathes a peaceful warmth into all lives
involved in A dam Bede.
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