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the Anglo-American canon
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Unlike his more philosophical adult collections
Adam Bede Simon J. Bronner the Anglo-American canonSet in 1799 in the rural English village of Hayslope, George Eliot's Adam Bede follows an honorable carpenter, Adam, who is hopelessly in love with the vain, self absorbed milkmaid, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty, however, only has eyes for the wealthy local squire, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, who seduces her and leaves her pregnant and abandoned. Desperate to escape her shame, Hetty flees town but abandons her newborn baby in the woods, which leads to her
