Adam Bede

According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature, "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison." The story''s plot follows four characters'' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-kn...