Adam Bede

Name: Adam Bede
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Author: George Eliot
ISBN: 9781843797845

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Georgina Sutton

Unabridged: 20 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 02/02/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

George Eliot’s first full-length novel, Adam Bede, is a profound rendering of 19th-century English pastoral life. This timeless story of seduction and betrayal follows the virtuous carpenter Adam Bede, whose world is soon disrupted when the all-too-beautiful Hetty betrays him for another villager. Her actions precipitate a turmoil of tragic events that shake the very foundations of their serene rural community. Eliot’s gift for leisurely and lyrical prose is in full effect here and her insight into human emotion and complexity is unrivalled.

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