Adam Bede

Name: Adam Bede
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: George Eliot
ISBN: 9798868772221

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Unabridged: 18 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Loudly

Published: 01/09/2024

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

"Adam Bede" is a novel written by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. The book was first published in 1859 and is set in the rural community of Hayslope in England during the late 18th century. The story revolves around the life of the titular character, Adam Bede, a carpenter, and his love for a beautiful dairy maid named Hetty Sorrel. The novel explores themes of love, morality, social expectations, and the consequences of individual choices.

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