Adam Bede, George Eliot
Adam Bede, George Eliot
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Adam Bede

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Laura Sears

Unabridged: 20 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Robert Larson

Published: 08/12/2024

Synopsis

Adam Bede is a classic novel set in the English countryside that delves into the lives of ordinary people.The story centers on the virtuous carpenter Adam Bede and his unrequited love for the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorrel. Their paths soon diverge as Hetty becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with the aristocratic Arthur Donnithorne. The novel delves into themes of social class, morality, and the complexities of human nature.

About George Eliot

George Eliot is the masculine pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's magazine, followed by such novels as The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch. Her work was popular with critics and the public alike, and in later years her novels were especially valued for their detailed portrayals of rural English life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry on August 16, 2018

The fact that George Eliot called this novel Adam Bede and not Hetty Sorrel proves that there is no justice in this world. The novel itself, Eliot’s first, is a fairly quaint pastoral romance. Everyone’s in love with the wrong person. You get the picture. The plot doesn’t really wear the novel’s weig......more

Goodreads review by Lark on November 02, 2022

Q: why did I read this again? A: because I love it......more

Goodreads review by Issicratea on August 16, 2018

Adam Bede (1859) was George Eliot’s first novel, preceded only by her short fiction collection, Scenes of Clerical Life. The novel was recognized as a masterpiece from the start. The Times review stated that “the author takes rank among the masters of the craft” and describes “him” as possessing “ge......more

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