The novel revolves around a love 'rectangle' among beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel CaptainArthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her Adam Bede,her unacknowledged suitor and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautifulMethodistlay preacher. The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslopeâ 'a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodistpreacher, and the original of Dinah Morrisof the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. Adam Bede, the first novelwritten by George Eliot(the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. George Eliot's first full-length novel and her earliest popular success.

A very good set in an attractive and near contemporary binding. Some light foxing and staining throughout, moderate on preliminary leaves. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, matching marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. 1865 in three quarter dark blue pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Three octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches 181 x 114 mm.). Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. George Eliot's First Full-Length Novel and her Earliest Popular Success ELIOT, George.

Ts eliot bede