Adam Bede - Penguin Classics Author:George Eliot, Stephen Gill In Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot took the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out if it created a wonderfully innovative and sympathetic portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people--their labors and loves, their beliefs, their talk. This edition reprints the original broadsheet reports of the mur... more »der case that was a starting point for the book, and detailed notes illuminate Eliot's many literary and Biblical allusions.« less