Adam Bede — George Eliot

Adam Bede

Novel
Book language: English
513 pages

George Eliot’s first full-length novel is a realistic portrait of rural English life, centered on the honest carpenter Adam Bede and the community around him. It follows love, temptation, and moral conflict among Hetty Sorrel, Arthur Donnithorne, and the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris. Rich in character and sympathy, it invites reflection on duty and forgiveness.

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Contents

Adam Bede
CONTENTS
Book First
Chapter I The Workshop
Chapter II The Preaching
Chapter III After the Preaching
Chapter IV Home and Its Sorrows
Chapter V The Rector
Chapter VI The Hall Farm
Chapter VII The Dairy
Chapter VIII A Vocation
Chapter IX Hetty’s World
Chapter X Dinah Visits Lisbeth
Chapter XI In the Cottage
Chapter XII In the Wood
Chapter XIII Evening in the Wood
Chapter XIV The Return Home
Chapter XV The Two Bed-Chambers
Chapter XVI Links
Book Second
Chapter XVII In Which the Story Pauses a Little
Chapter XVIII Church
Chapter XIX Adam on a Working Day
Chapter XX Adam Visits the Hall Farm
Chapter XXI The Night-School and the Schoolmaster
Book Third
Chapter XXII Going to the Birthday Feast
Chapter XXIII Dinner-Time
Chapter XXIV The Health-Drinking
Chapter XXV The Games

and 35 more chapters

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