Adam Bede
First published
1800
Genre
Fiction
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.
FictionEngland in fictionInfanticide in fictionCarpenters in fictionWomen clergy in fictionIllegitimate children…
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