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Adam Bede (version 2)

Adam Bede (version 2)

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Number of Chapters: 62

Length: 25 hours and 44 minutes

Language: English

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a feminist standpoint.

The story centres on a pastoral love triangle. Two young men, carpenter Adam Bede and squire Captain Arthur Donnithorne, are both in love with the mercurial Hetty Sorrel. There’s a further love interest between Adam and beautiful lay preacher Dinah Morris.

The setting is a country village in the north of England in the last years of the eighteenth century. The author paints a wonderful landscape of contemporary life as it really was, and excels in the portraits of her characters. Each is flawed, each has their own passions, each is unique, and through this great novel, Eliot put her stamp on literature and on the way we view the vagaries of character, helping us to see people as they really are.

This is one of the greatest novels in the English language. First published in 1859, Adam Bede has never been out of print since, which speaks volumes about its timeless quality. - Summary by Tom Denholm

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Book 1, Chapter 1, The Workshop (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 2, The Preaching, Part i (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 2, The Preaching, Part ii (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 3, After the Preaching (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 4, Home and its Sorrows, Part i (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 4, Home and its Sorrows, Part ii (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 5, The Rector, Part i (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 5, The Rector, Part ii (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 6, The Hall Farm (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 7, The Dairy (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 8, A Vocation (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 9, Hetty's World (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 10, Dinah Visits Lisbeth (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 11, In the Cottage (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 12, In the Wood (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 13, Evening in the Wood (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 14, The Return Home (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 15, The Two Bed-Chambers (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 16, Links (Tom Denholm)
Book 2, Chapter 17, In Which the Story Pauses a Little (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 18, Church, Part i (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 18, Church, Part ii (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 19, Adam on a Working Day (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 20, Adam Visits the Hall Farm, Part i (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 20, Adam Visits the Hall Farm, Part ii (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 21, The Night-School and the Schoolmaster, Part i (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 21, The Night-School and the Schoolmaster, Part ii (Tom Denholm)
Book 3, Chapter 22, Going to the Birthday Feast (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 23, Dinner-Time (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 24, The Health-Drinking (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 25, The Games (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 26, The Dance (Tom Denholm)
Book 4, Chapter 27, A Crisis (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 28, A Dilemma (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 29, The Next Morning (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 30, The Delivery of the Letter (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 31, In Hetty's Bedchamber (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 32, Mrs Poyser 'Has Her Say Out' (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 33, More Links (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 34, The Betrothal (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 35, The Hidden Dread (Tom Denholm)
Book 5, Chapter 36, The Journey of Hope (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 37,The Journey in Despair (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 38, The Quest (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 39,The Tidings (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 40, The Bitter Waters Spread (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 41, The Eve of the Trial (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 42, The Morning of the Trial (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 43, The Verdict (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 44, Arthur's Return (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 45, In the Prison (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 46, The Hours of Suspense (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 47, The Last Moment (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 48, Another Meeting in the Wood (Tom Denholm)
Book 6, Chapter 49, At the Hall Farm (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 50, In the Cottage (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 51, Sunday Morning (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 52, Adam and Dinah (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 53, The Harvest Supper (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 54, The Meeting on the Hill (Tom Denholm)
Chapter 55, Marriage Bells (Tom Denholm)
Epilogue (Tom Denholm)
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