{"product_id":"9780679409915","title":"Adam Bede","description":"\u003cp\u003eA remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot’s first novel, a story of  love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire’s estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people’s lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, whose intervention offers both Hetty and Adam comfort and the hope of peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe evocations of a lost rural world for which \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859 are charged in Eliot’s hands with a personal compassion that intensifies the novel’s outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With an introduction by Leonee Ormond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051774820592,"sku":"9780679409915","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679409915_p0.jpg?v=1763613107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679409915","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}