Adam Bede - Brossura

Eliot, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853261920 ISBN 13: 9781853261923

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost. The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual.

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L'autore:

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), one of the leading writers of Victorian times. Like many of her contemporary female writers, she published her books using a male name in order to be taken seriously. Her novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, have remained perennially popular and the subject of numerous television adaptations.

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• Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853261920
• ISBN 13: 9781853261923
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 460