Adam Bede /
George Eliot ; edited with an introduction by Stephen Gill.
- New York : Penguin Books, 1985, 1859.
- xl, 562 p ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
- Penguin classics. .
Originally published in 1859.
Set in early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.