Adam Bede

نبذة عن كتاب Adam Bede

Adam Bede is a novel about human character, about individuals in relationship to one another in family groups and in larger social organizations of their world. The reader may sympathize with all the characters of such a novel, but will not identify closely with any one of them.
The novel is set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century. It is about the seduction of a beautiful country girl by the local squire. Adam Bede is, indeed, a pioneering record 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.