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Adam Bede

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  1. Book 1, Chapter 1:The Workshop

    20:25

  2. Book 1, Chapter 2: The Preaching

    43:51

  3. Book 1, Chapter 3: After the Preaching

    18:48

  4. Book 1, Chapter 4: Home and Its Sorrows

    31:16

  5. Book 1, Chapter 5: The Rector

    36:42

  6. Book 1, Chapter 6: The Hall Farm

    31:08

  7. Book 1, Chapter 7: The Dairy

    15:16

  8. Book 1, Chapter 8: A Vocation

    18:52

  9. Book 1, Chapter 9: Hetty's World

    14:33

  10. Book 1, Chapter 10: Dinah Visits Lisbeth

    36:48

  11. Book 1, Chapter 11: In the Cottage

    24:14

  12. Book 1, Chapter 12: In the Wood

    24:16

  13. Book 1, Chapter 13: Evening in the Wood

    11:36

  14. Book 1, Chapter 14: The Return Home

    18:41

  15. Book 1, Chapter 15: The Two Bed-Chambers

    29:00

  16. Book 1, Chapter 16: Links

    27:32

  17. Book 2, Chapter 17: In Which the Story Pauses a Little

    20:17

  18. Book 2, Chapter 18: Church

    48:27

  19. Book 2, Chapter 19: Adam on a Working Day

    14:45

  20. Book 2, Chapter 20: Adam Visits the Hall Farm

    36:44

  21. Book 2, Chapter 21: The Night-School and the Schoolmaster

    34:52

  22. Book 3, Chapter 22: Going to the Birthday Feast

    24:56

  23. Book 3, Chapter 23: Dinner-Time

    10:44

  24. Book 3, Chapter 24: The Health-Drinking

    17:17

  25. Book 3, Chapter 25: The Games

    20:44

  26. Book 3, Chapter 26: The Dance

    27:38

  27. Book 4, Chapter 27: A crisis

    22:13

  28. Book 4, Chapter 28: A Dilemma

    16:10

  29. Book 4, Chapter 29: The Next Morning

    18:29

  30. Book 4, Chapter 30: The Delivery of the Letter (Chapter XXX!)

    26:45

  31. Book 4, Chapter 31: In Hetty's Bed-Chamber

    20:05

  32. Book 4, Chapter 32: Mrs. Poyser "Has Her Say Out"

    23:05

  33. Book 4, Chapter 33: More Links

    15:15

  34. Book 4, Chapter 34: The Betrothal

    9:31

  35. Book 4, Chapter 35: The Hidden Dread

    12:18

  36. Book 5, Chapter 36: The Journey of Hope

    20:07

  37. Book 5, Chapter 37: The Journey in Despair

    31:10

  38. Book 5, Chapter 38: The Quest

    35:19

  39. Book 5, Chapter 39: The Tidings

    15:49

  40. Book 5, Chapter 40: The Bitter Waters Spread

    20:06

  41. Book 5, Chapter 41: The Eve of the Trial

    13:33

  42. Book 5, Chapter 42: The Morning of the Trial

    10:44

  43. Book 5, Chapter 43: The Verdict

    17:32

  44. Book 5, Chapter 44: Arthur's Return

    18:35

  45. Book 5, Chapter 45: In the Prison

    27:34

  46. Book 5, Chapter 46: The Hours of Suspense

    15:27

  47. Book 5, Chapter 47: The Last Moment

    3:01

  48. Book 5, Chapter 48: Another Meeting in the Wood

    23:50

  49. Book 6, Chapter 49: At the Hall Farm

    26:50

  50. Book 6, Chapter 50: In the Cottage

    24:13

  51. Book 6, Chapter 51: Sunday Morning

    26:35

  52. Book 6, Chapter 52: Adam and Dinah

    19:46

  53. Book 6, Chapter 53: The Harvest Supper

    30:47

  54. Book 6, Chapter 54: The Meeting on the Hill

    14:42

  55. Book 6, Chapter 55: Marriage Bells

    7:02

  56. Epilogue

    8:13

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About this book

In a rural English community at the turn of the nineteenth century, the upright carpenter Adam Bede loves the vain, pretty Hetty Sorrel, whose seduction by the local squire leads to tragedy, while the serene Methodist preacher Dinah Morris offers a different vision of grace. Eliot's first full novel is a richly detailed portrait of country life, moral consequence, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people. Compassionate and profound, Adam Bede established her as a major novelist with its blend of realism, tenderness, and ethical depth. A moving story of love, guilt, and redemption, it remains a cornerstone of the English realist tradition.

Contents

  1. Book First
  2. Chapter I The Workshop
  3. Chapter II The Preaching
  4. Chapter III After the Preaching
  5. Chapter IV Home and Its Sorrows
  6. Chapter V The Rector
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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

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521
Language
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