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...
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10 min
Epilogue
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7 min
Chapter 55, Marriage Bells
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16 min
Chapter 54, The Meeting on the Hill
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37 min
Chapter 53, The Harvest Supper
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25 min
Chapter 52, Adam and Dinah
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35 min
Chapter 51, Sunday Morning
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32 min
Chapter 50, In the Cottage
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27 min
Book 6, Chapter 49, At the Hall Farm
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27 min
Chapter 48, Another Meeting in the Wood
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3 min
Chapter 47, The Last Moment
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18 min
Chapter 46, The Hours of Suspense
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32 min
Chapter 45, In the Prison
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21 min
Chapter 44, Arthur's Return
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22 min
Chapter 43, The Verdict
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14 min
Chapter 42, The Morning of the Trial
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15 min
Chapter 41, The Eve of the Trial
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25 min
Chapter 40, The Bitter Waters Spread
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22 min
Chapter 39,The Tidings
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41 min
Chapter 38, The Quest
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36 min
Chapter 37,The Journey in Despair