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Adam Bede de George Eliot

Adam Bede

Autor George Eliot
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2019
About the BookAdam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves.About the AuthorMary Ann (Marian) Evans was born in 1819 in Warwickshire. Under the name of George Eliot, she wrote Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, as well as numerous essays, articles and reviews. She died in 1880, only a few months after marrying J. W. Cross, an old friend and admirer, who became her first biographer. Margaret Reynolds works on literature from the C18th to the present day, especially poetry, and especially in the Victorian period. Her The Sappho History (2003) traced the transmission of the works and images of the ancient Greek poet as they appear in the works of Mary Robinson, S.T. Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, Baudelaire, Swinburne, H.D. and Virginia Woolf. Margaret Reynolds is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Adventures in Poetry', now in its 11th series. She has a weekly column on classic books in the Saturday Times.Excerpt. (c) Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.CHAPTER IThe WorkshopWith a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799.The afternoon sun was warm on the five workmen there, busy upon doors and window-frames and wainscoting. A scent of pine-wood from a tent-like pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite the slanting sunbeams shone through the transparent shavings that flew before the steady plane, and lit up the fine grain of the oak panelling which stood propped against the wall. On a heap of those soft shavings a rough grey shepherd-dog had made himself a pleasant bed, and was lying with his nose between his fore-paws, occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of the five workmen, who was carving a shield in the centre of a wooden mantelpiece. It was to this workman that the strong barytone belonged which was heard above the sound of plane and hammer singing- "Awake, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run Shake off dull sloth. . . . ."Political Fiction (Books)Comedic Dramas & PlaysVictorian Literary Criticism
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781420965377
ISBN-10: 1420965379
Pagini: 406
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Digireads.com

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'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.'Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. His dalliance with the dairymaid has unforeseen consequences that affect the lives of many in their small rural community. First published in 1859, Adam Bede carried its readers back sixty years to the lush countryside of Eliot's native Warwickshire, and a time of impending change for England and the wider world. Eliot's powerful portrayal of the interaction of ordinary people brought a new social realism to the novel, in which humour and tragedy co-exist, and fellow-feeling is the mainstay of human relationships. Faith, in the figure of Methodist preacher Dinah Morris, offers redemption to all who are willing to embrace it.This new edition is based on the definitive Clarendon edition and Eliot's corrected text of 1861. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Recenzii

The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century’s great novelists. With sympathy, wit, and unflinching realism, Adam Bede tells a story that would have been familiar to Eliot’s first readers: the seduction of a pretty farm girl by the young squire of the district. Eliot uses this story, with its tragic implications, to explore the dangers of reliance on religious and social norms to govern destructive desires. As this edition demonstrates, Adam Bede addresses profound questions of morality, religion, and the role of women in society, while at the same time seeking to establish a new aesthetic for fiction.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of appendices, including selections from Eliot’s letters and journals, contemporary reviews of the novel, and accounts of the murder trial of Mary Voce, the woman whose story formed part of the inspiration for the novel.

“The Broadview edition of Adam Bede is an excellent one for students, scholars, and the intelligent general reader. The introduction and appendices offer the apparatus to contextualize the novel, a bestseller in its day because it engaged with major religious and philosophical questions as well as involving the reader with a compelling love story. It appealed then, as it does today, to both head and heart.” — Pam Hirsch, University of Cambridge

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
George Eliot: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Adam Bede
Appendix A: Realism, Morality, and Fiction
  1. George Eliot’s Early Attitudes to Fiction
    1. Letter to Maria Lewis, 16 March 1839
    2. Letter to Sarah Hennell, 9 February 1849
  2. George Eliot and George Henry Lewes on the Nature and Function of the Novel
    1. From Lewes’s “Recent Novels: French and English,” Fraser’s Magazine (December 1847)
    2. From Lewes’s Review of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Westminster Review (April 1853)
    3. From Eliot’s Reviews of Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!, Geraldine Jewsbury’s Constance Herbert, and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Westminster Review (July 1855), and Leader (July 1855)
  3. Realism
    1. From John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (1856)
    2. Eliot’s Response to Ruskin, Westminster Review (April 1856)
    3. From George Eliot’s Review of Wilhelm HeinrichRiehl’s Die Naturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes als Grundlage einer deutschen Social Politik, Westminster Review (July 1856)
Appendix B: The Genesis and Publication of Adam Bede: From George Eliot’s Letters and Journals
Appendix C: The Trial and Execution of Mary Voce, 1802
  1. An Account of the Experience and Happy Death of Mary Voce
  2. The Life, Character, Behaviour at the Place of Execution and Dying Speech of Mary Voce
  3. A full and particular Account of the Life,Trial, and Behaviour of Mary Voce
Appendix D: The Reception of Adam Bede
  1. From a Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle, 20 February 1859
  2. From a Letter from Charles Dickens, 10 July 1859
  3. The Times (12 April 1859)
  4. Bentley’s Quarterly Review (July 1859)
  5. The Saturday Review (26 February 1859)
  6. The London Quarterly Review (July 1861)
  7. Henry James, The Atlantic Monthly (October 1866)
Appendix E: The Religious Background
  1. Methodism: From the Journals of John Wesley
  2. Women Preachers
    1. Saint Paul
    2. From John Wesley’s Letters (1761, 1769)
    3. From the Journal of Ann Gilbert, 1771
    4. Sarah’s Crosby’s Experience, 1768
    5. Elizabeth Evans and Mary Voce, 1802
    6. Marriage for Women Preachers
  3. Contemporary Religious Thought
    1. From David Friederich Strauss, The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (1835-36)
    2. From Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity (1841)
    3. From Charles Hennell, An Inquiry into the Origin of Christianity (1838)
    4. From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1862)
  4. Eliot’s Religious Beliefs
    1. From a Letter to Maria Lewis, 18 August 1838
    2. From a Letter to Her Father, 28 February 1842
    3. From Eliot’s Review of Works by John Cumming, Westminster Review (October 1855)
    4. From a Letter to François d’Albert-Durade, 6 December 1859
    5. From a Letter to Mme Eugène Bodichon (Barbara Leigh Smith), 26 December 1860
    Select Bibliography and Further Reading

Notă biografică

George Eliot was born in Nuneaton on 22nd November 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836.She later moved to Coventry with her father.After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society.

In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim.Her first attempt to write Middlemarch, her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch. The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on 22nd December 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.