George Eliot

Adam Bede

originally published:
Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons
January 1859

The title page of the first edition, as illustrated in the Grolier Club's 1902 publication One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature.

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bio notes:
born: 11/22/1819
died: 12/22/1880
born as: Mary Ann Evans

Victorian novelist who developed the method of pyschological analysis characteristic of modern fiction. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

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We offered this 1887 reprint in its original dustwrapper in our Catalog 119.