Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans (1819-1880) was an editor, translator, poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist who wrote under the name of George Eliot for all but one of her books.
Adam Bede was her first novel, and was published in 1859. It is set in Northern England about the turn of the century, during the end of the Napoleonic era and the flowering of Methodism when lower class people were respectful to their betters. The book contains several love stories with different endings, and direct comments from the author to her readers. Much of the dialogue is in dialect.
The text was taken from ebooks@adelaide.edu.au and checked against the 1859 William Blackwood and Sons version in the Internet Archive. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics and diacritics, set letters off as blockquotes, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.
Adam Bede was her first novel, and was published in 1859. It is set in Northern England about the turn of the century, during the end of the Napoleonic era and the flowering of Methodism when lower class people were respectful to their betters. The book contains several love stories with different endings, and direct comments from the author to her readers. Much of the dialogue is in dialect.
The text was taken from ebooks@adelaide.edu.au and checked against the 1859 William Blackwood and Sons version in the Internet Archive. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics and diacritics, set letters off as blockquotes, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.
