Adam Bede

Name: Adam Bede
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: George Eliot
ISBN: 9781433261879

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 19 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 08/07/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

George Eliots first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love.Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her baublesand the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand. Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution. Only in the lovely Dinah Morris, a preacher, does Adam find his redemption.

About George Eliot

George Eliot is the masculine pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's magazine, followed by such novels as The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch. Her work was popular with critics and the public alike, and in later years her novels were especially valued for their detailed portrayals of rural English life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry on August 16, 2018

The fact that George Eliot called this novel Adam Bede and not Hetty Sorrel proves that there is no justice in this world. The novel itself, Eliot’s first, is a fairly quaint pastoral romance. Everyone’s in love with the wrong person. You get the picture. The plot doesn’t really wear the novel’s weig......more

Goodreads review by Lark on November 02, 2022

Q: why did I read this again? A: because I love it......more

Goodreads review by Issicratea on August 16, 2018

Adam Bede (1859) was George Eliot’s first novel, preceded only by her short fiction collection, Scenes of Clerical Life. The novel was recognized as a masterpiece from the start. The Times review stated that “the author takes rank among the masters of the craft” and describes “him” as possessing “ge......more