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Adam Bede de George Eliot

Adam Bede

Autor George Eliot
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La o primă vedere, Adam Bede pare a fi doar o idilă pastorală ce evocă farmecul discret al satului englezesc de la sfârșitul secolului al XVIII-lea, însă cititorul descoperă rapid o analiză psihologică necruțătoare a consecințelor morale. Descoperim aici că peisajul din Hayslope nu este un simplu decor, ci o prezență vitală, aproape organică, ce pulsează în ritmul muncii de tâmplărie a lui Adam și al predicilor metodiste ale Dinei Morris. Reținem finețea cu care Eliot transformă o poveste aparent simplă de seducție și trădare într-o tragedie de proporții epice, unde fiecare alegere individuală reverberează în întreaga comunitate.

Ca și The Mill on the Floss, acest debut explorează tensiunea dintre dorințele personale și rigorile sociale ale vieții provinciale, dar dintr-o perspectivă mai ancorată în realismul meșteșugăresc și în demnitatea muncii manuale. Dacă în Silas Marner autoarea va rafina ulterior tema izolării și a mântuirii, în Adam Bede ea pune bazele acelei „interconectări a sinelui cu societatea” care va atinge apogeul în Middlemarch. Structura romanului este una progresivă, începând cu atmosfera tactilă a atelierului de tâmplărie — unde mirosul de pin și așchiile de stejar devin aproape palpabile pentru cititor — și evoluând spre dileme etice complexe. Prezența anexelor despre realism și a scrisorilor autoarei în această ediție oferă un context critic esențial, transformând lectura într-o incursiune în laboratorul de creație al uneia dintre cele mai profunde minți ale epocii victoriene. Stilul este sobru, dar marcat de o empatie profundă față de fragilitatea umană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781512267433
ISBN-10: 1512267430
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 216 x 280 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman celor care doresc să descopere originile realismului psihologic modern. Cititorul va câștiga nu doar o poveste captivantă despre dragoste și onoare, ci și o înțelegere profundă a modului în care micile decizii etice modelează destinul unei întregi comunități. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege tranziția literaturii engleze spre maturitatea victoriană, oferind un echilibru rar între observația socială și emoția pură.

Despre autor

George Eliot, pe numele său real Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), a fost una dintre figurile centrale ale literaturii victoriene. Deși era un erudit respectat, a ales pseudonimul masculin pentru a se asigura că ficțiunea sa este judecată dincolo de stereotipurile vremii despre „literatura feminină” ușoară. Opera sa, care include capodopere precum Middlemarch și The Mill on the Floss, este definită de un realism riguros și o capacitate extraordinară de a pătrunde în psihologia personajelor din Anglia provincială. A fost o vizionară care a integrat în romanele sale idei din filozofie și științele naturii, fiind considerată de Virginia Woolf drept unul dintre puținii autori care au scris romane cu adevărat mature.

Descriere scurtă

With 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.

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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.