Adam Bede George Eliot

Eliot, George (Marion Evans); John Paterson -Ed. Adam Bede. Boston: Houghton Mifflin College Div, 1968.
Marfree, early prtg; no names just 5 margin checks & endpaper pencil notes, not underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 450 pages; Classic tale of strength and weakness, July 29, 2002By agtpeach (PA) - George Eliot weaves a simple story of love, suffering, and goodness. While the plot is hardly complex (boy loves girl, another boy gets girl, unhappiness abounds - also reused in Mill on the Floss), the manner in which Eliot develops her characters and their emotions and actions ring as true and resoundingly as a bell. It's so clear, so obvious, but also moving and textured. You feel Adam's absolute love for vain little Hetty, Dinah's calming grace, Arthur's good intentions, Lisbeth's fretting nature. Eliot draws you in with her honest observations of life in a country town, without the background becoming a dominant factor. The near idyllic life the characters lead is a healthy contrast to the town's emotional upheaval.Adam is an upright, genuine character, and not as perfect as he seems. If his love for Hetty seems unfounded at times, it only serves to highlight how dangerous delusions can be. All the "sinners" are ultimately redeemed by truth - true love, true friends, true promises, and true acceptance. Religion plays a significant part in the novel, but don't let that deter you. It's so much more than that - Adam Bede is truly one of the few works that encompass a world of humanity between two covers.AB reminded me of Tess of the D'Ubervilles a bit, but there is no villain here, just flawed, honest people in search of unattainable dreams. In the process of trying to get a bit of happiness, they stumble and bleed, but ultimately find something truly worth having. Bittersweetness is Eliot's trademark for good reason.George Eliot's first full novel is obviously a bit less polished than her later works, but you see the wonderful command she has over language and expression. The book, the people, the story all come alive with her touch. A rare read that has something to say and says it beautifully.. 978-0395052044.

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Eliot, George: Works of George Eliot: Adam Bede (in 2 Volumes, Vol I) Cambridge University Press 1898 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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This book is in terrific condition. It comes from a series of books on the works of George Eliot. This is number 18 or volume L. It is number 440 of 500 books printed. There are 6 drawings from black and white photo etchings--each etching has a vellum page protecting it. The cover is a olive green cloth with a paste on label at spine. The upper edges of pages are gilt and smooth--other edges are rough, as though hand cut. Pages show some yellowing. There is some edge wear and some fraying at upper edge of spine. Please note, that this is the first half of the story of Adam Bede. It contains a tragic love triangle involving Adam (a local carpenter), Hetty Sorrel (beautiful but selfish), Captain Arthur Donnithorne (a local squire), and Dinah Morris--a Methodist laypreacher. No Jacket Hard Cover

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Making the Middle Ages: MMAGES 6, J. Johnston, George Eliot and the Discourses of Medievalism, Brepols ISBN: 2-503-50773-6
2-503-50773-6 Verlagsfrisch New Copy

Making the Middle Ages MMAGES 6 J. Johnston George Eliot and the Discourses of Medievalism X+210 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2006, Hardback ISBN 978-2-503-50773-6, EUR 60.00 Available English Text: In George Eliot's last two novels, Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel Deronda (1876), she abandons the realism she had explored and articulated so carefully, most famously in Adam Bede, 'a faithful account of men and things', for an unprecedented return to 'cloud-borne angels, [...] prophets, sibyls, and heroic warriors'. This study addresses Eliot's exploitation of Victorian medievalism by considering the way in which she utilizes the discourses of medievalism, both for their potential for subversiveness and their potential for mediation, to affirm that change is possible socially, culturally, and politically, in her modern contemporary world. The various medieval discourses are revealed as interstices within what initially appears to be a continuation of the realism of her earlier novels. They permit political and cultural readings of a different, and often unexpected, kind to the realist bourgeois values of novels like Adam Bede, and to a lesser extent, Felix Holt. These political and cultural readings reveal a more determined, more obvious feminist and socialist polemic in her two last and possibly greatest novels.

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Eliot, George: Novels of George Eliot: VOL I Adam Bede, Nerw York Harper and Brothers 1869 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover
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Type: Hard Back HARPER'S LIBRARY EDITION-ILLUSTRATED. Of five volume set, this is Volume I. Adam Bede was first pub. 1859. This edition published 1869. A rather sad story of love, seduction, fantasy, betrayl. Hardcover Book in Good Used Condition. No jacket, probably as issued. 452 pages. 5"x7.5" tall. Green cloth gilt titled on front and spine. Boards rubbed on sides and edges, wear of corners and spine head/tail. Tight, solid sewn binding. Prev owner name on ffep dated 1885. Frontspiece an illustrations of "In the Wood". Title page illustration of "The Hall Farm". First pages have tan stain along lower portion of fore edge. Pages generally clean with occasional smudges, foxing spots, pp446-447 have several spotty areas. Pages toned. Not bad for an 1869 published book of a classic novel. No Jacket Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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