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A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot’s first novel, a story of love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity.
Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire’s estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people’s lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, whose intervention offers both Hetty and Adam comfort and the hope of peace.
The evocations of a lost rural world for which Adam Bede was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859 are charged in Eliot’s hands with a personal compassion that intensifies the novel’s outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (87.9K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length22 hrs 18 mins
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Publish dateAug 21, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER 1. THE WORKSHOP
2CHAPTER 2. THE PREACHING
3CHAPTER 3. AFTER THE PREACHING
4CHAPTER 4. HOME AND ITS SORROWS
5CHAPTER 5. THE RECTOR
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6CHAPTER 6. THE HALL FARM
7CHAPTER 7. THE DAIRY
8CHAPTER 8. A VOCATION
9CHAPTER 9. HETTY'S WORLD
10CHAPTER 10. DINAH VISITS LISBETH
11CHAPTER 11. IN THE COTTAGE
12CHAPTER 12. IN THE WOOD
13CHAPTER 13. EVENING IN THE WOOD
14CHAPTER 14. THE RETURN HOME
15CHAPTER 15. THE TWO BED-CHAMBERS
16CHAPTER 16. LINKS
17BOOK TWO
18CHAPTER 17. IN WHICH THE STORY PAUSES A LITTLE
19CHAPTER 18. CHURCH
20CHAPTER 19. ADAM ON A WORKING DAY
21CHAPTER 20. ADAM VISITS THE HALL FARM
22CHAPTER 21. THE NIGHT-SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOLMASTER
23BOOK THREE
24CHAPTER 22. GOING TO THE BIRTHDAY FEAST
25CHAPTER 23. DINNER-TIME
26CHAPTER 24. THE HEALTH-DRINKING
27CHAPTER 25. THE GAMES
28CHAPTER 26. THE DANCE
29BOOK FOUR
30CHAPTER 27. A CRISIS
31CHAPTER 28. A DILEMMA
32CHAPTER 29. THE NEXT MORNING
33CHAPTER 30. THE DELIVERY OF THE LETTER
34CHAPTER 31. IN HETTY'S BED-CHAMBER
35CHAPTER 32. MRS. POYSER "HAS HER SAY OUT"
36CHAPTER 33. MORE LINKS
37CHAPTER 34. THE BETROTHAL
38CHAPTER 35. THE HIDDEN DREAD
39BOOK FIVE
40CHAPTER 36. THE JOURNEY OF HOPE
41CHAPTER 37. THE JOURNEY IN DESPAIR
42CHAPTER 38. THE QUEST
43CHAPTER 39. THE TIDINGS
44CHAPTER 40. THE BITTER WATERS SPREAD
45CHAPTER 41. THE EVE OF THE TRIAL
46CHAPTER 42. THE MORNING OF THE TRIAL
47CHAPTER 43. THE VERDICT
48CHAPTER 44. ARTHUR'S RETURN
49CHAPTER 45. IN THE PRISON
50CHAPTER 46. THE HOURS OF SUSPENSE
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