590 pages
English language
Published Nov. 21, 2002 by Modern Library.
3 stars
(3 reviews)
Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, whose only delights are her baubles-and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand. Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution.
Subjects
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- Women clergy -- Fiction
- Infanticide -- Fiction
- Carpenters -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction