<![CDATA[Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)]]>

false <![CDATA[Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173540420m/301348.jpg 20563 87 Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot’s first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it “a country story—full of the breath of cows and scent of hay.” Adam Bede is an earnest and virtuous carpenter who is betrayed by his love, Hetty Sorrel, a pretty yet foolish dairymaid who is seduced by a careless young villager. The bitter, tragic consequences of her actions shake the very foundations of their serene rural community. While Adam Bede represents a timeless story of seduction and betrayal, it is also a deeper, impassioned meditation on the irrevocable consequences of human actions and on moral growth and redemption through suffering. 1015873 book 1859 Adam Bede (Modern Library Classics) total:1255|5:311|4:496|3:335|2:86|1:27| 1255 4743 1947 127 4 2 false false Sun Dec 23 09:21:10 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 04 18:11:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 20:54:24 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 14 22:19:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 24 07:55:56 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 30 07:20:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 19 22:01:41 -0800 2008 Wed May 07 02:27:13 -0700 2008
What the plot may lack in scope, the writing makes up for tenfold with tender and true insights into pain, hope, vanity and prosaic life. It's a true, true, true book, that beats with an honest heart. Yo...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 06 08:16:52 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 26 14:26:51 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 06 08:16:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 04:25:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 04:36:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 19:57:47 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 08:24:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 00:51:58 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 01:25:58 -0700 2009 1
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2) ultimately a good story (and relatively rare to find a woman like Hetty treated as anything other than a one dimensional object in Victorian lit)
3) some very funny moments (I'm a sucker for snark...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 14:53:53 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 14:58:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 19:51:16 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 21:09:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 14:13:41 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 15 05:43:43 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 04 14:32:50 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 23:37:10 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 14:32:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 10:27:39 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 10:39:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 17:55:16 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 08:46:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=301348