Adam Bede By George Eliot (Paperback, 1996)

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With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury' Examine your words well & 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 & Dickens Set in the English Midlands of farmers & 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 & pioneering record
- drawing on intimate knowledge & affectionate memory
- of a rural world that we have lost The movement of the narration between social realism & reflection on its own processes the exploration of motives & the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual