Adam Bede Volume 2 Author:George Eliot This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1859 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. Adam Bede is a pious man, in love, to his detriment, with the flighty Hetty Sorrel. When Hetty is seduced by another man, she must hide her pregnancy from Adam, to whom she is now betrothed; the tale's development from here depicts each character'... more »s struggles for happiness in life and in marriage.« less