{"product_id":"9781775415930","title":"Adam Bede","description":"According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967),\u003cbr\u003e\"the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope-a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love \"rectangle\" among beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. (The real village where Adam Bede was set is Ellastone[citation needed]on the Staffordshire \/ Derbyshire border, a few miles from Uttoxeter and Ashbourne, and near to Alton Towers. Eliot's father lived in the village as a carpenter in a substantial house now known as Adam Bede's Cottage).","brand":"The Floating Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136775766256,"sku":"9781775415930","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781775415930_p0.jpg?v=1763709522","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781775415930","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}