کتاب Adam Bede Original In Adam Bede 1859 George Eliot took the wellworn tale of a lovely dairymaid seduced by a careless squire and out of it created a wonderfully innovative and sympathetic portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people  their labours and loves their beliefs their talk Hugely popular in its own time Adam Bede is one of the greatest examples of humane and liberal Victorian social concern a pioneering classic of radical social realism It is also important for the way it meditates on the need for such fiction and the methods of writing it As the Introduction declares The distinction of Adam Bede is to tell a story and also to tell about telling a story This is a novel about obscure lives and also about how to be a novel about obscure lives This edition reprints the original broadsheet reports of the murder case that was a starting point for the book and the notes illuminate Eliots many literary and religious references