Adam Bede
Author(s): George Eliot
Genre(s): Romance
Narrators: Anita Roy Dobbs, Missie, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Iremonger, Amycsj, Robin Cotter, Carmina Sansone, Simon Evers, Tony Ashworth, Angela Kelley, Fr. Richard Zeile Of Detroit, Annise, Lorie Heinrichs, Catherine Millward, Belinda Brown, Jack Farrell, Janna, Shirley Ellen, Aaron Elliott
Number of Chapters: 56
Length: 20 hours and 34 minutes
Language: English
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th century English literature.
The story'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 thoughtless Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent Methodist lay preacher.
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