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"Adam Bede" was George Eliot's (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) first published novel in 1859, and it explores the love and loss of a young man in the 1800s.
In "Adam Bede", Eliot again represents the humour and wit of the lower classes through their rural dialect and idiom, a skill that had captivated readers and helped to establish her as a writer of humour, pathos, and social realism. Such wit is concentrated in Mrs. Poyser, master of the colourful maxim, and leaves the narrator more distant than in the earlier story. Eliot interrupts the narrative, nevertheless, to instruct the reader in the aesthetic rules of realism.
"Adam Bede"'s plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher.
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (100.8K)
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GenreHumor, General Fiction, Romance
Length22 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 21, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK ONE
2Chapter 1. The Workshop
3Chapter 2. The Preaching
4Chapter 3. After The Preaching
5Chapter 4. Home And Its Sorrows
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6Chapter 5. The Rector
7Chapter 6. The Hall Farm
8Chapter 7. The Dairy
9Chapter 8. A Vocation
10Chapter 9. Hetty's World
11Chapter 10. Dinah Visits Lisbeth
12Chapter 11. In The Cottage
13Chapter 12. In The Wood
14Chapter 13. Evening In The Wood
15Chapter 14. The Return Home
16Chapter 15. The Two Bed-Chambers
17Chapter 16. Links
18BOOK TWO
19Chapter 17. In Which The Story Pauses A Little
20Chapter 18. Church
21Chapter 19. Adam On A Working Day
22Chapter 20. Adam Visits The Hall Farm
23Chapter 21. The Night-School And The Schoolmaster
24BOOK THREE
25Chapter 22. Going To The Birthday Feast
26Chapter 23. Dinner-Time
27Chapter 24. The Health-Drinking
28Chapter 25. The Games
29Chapter 26. The Dance
30BOOK FOUR
31Chapter 27. A Crisis
32Chapter 28. A Dilemma
33Chapter 29. The Next Morning
34Chapter 30. The Delivery Of The Letter
35Chapter 31. In Hetty's Bed-Chamber
36Chapter 32. Mrs. Poyser "Has Her Say Out"
37Chapter 33. More Links
38Chapter 34. The Betrothal
39Chapter 35. The Hidden Dread
40BOOK FIVE
41Chapter 36. The Journey Of Hope
42Chapter 37. The Journey In Despair
43Chapter 38. The Quest
44Chapter 39. The Tidings
45Chapter 40. The Bitter Waters Spread
46Chapter 41. The Eve Of The Trial
47Chapter 42. The Morning Of The Trial
48Chapter 43. The Verdict
49Chapter 44. Arthur's Return
50Chapter 45. In The Prison
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