When a lonely linen-weaver's gold is stolen from his cottage, nothing consoles him until the arrival of a young child changes his life.
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ADAM BEDE
Hetty Sorrel is loved by Adam Bede but she is in love with a young squire who seduces her and by whom she has a child. Hetty kills the child by abandoning it in a field and is tried and sentenced to death for murder.
MIDDLEMARCH
Dorothea Brooke marries the pedantic scholar Casaubon, in a quest for intellectual fulfilment. The marriage is unhappy but after his death she is trapped by the terms of his will. Other characters include the charming Dr Lydgate and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode.
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom are very close but, as she grows into womanhood, she comes into conflict with his bourgeois standards and the result is tragedy.