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Adam Bede by George Eliot read by Wanda McCaddon.
Requirements: MP3 Player, 547 MB. Unabridged.
Overview: Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature.

    Adam is a local carpenter much admired for his integrity and intelligence, in love with Hetty. She is attracted to Arthur, the charming local squire’s grandson and heir, and falls in love with him. When Adam interrupts a tryst between them, Adam and Arthur fight. Arthur agrees to give up Hetty and leaves Hayslope to return to his militia. After he leaves, Hetty Sorrel agrees to marry Adam but shortly before their marriage, discovers she is pregnant. In desperation, she leaves in search of Arthur but she cannot find him. Unwilling to return to the village on account of the shame and ostracism she would have to endure, she delivers her baby with the assistance of a friendly woman she encounters. She subsequently abandons the infant in a field but not being able to bear the child’s cries, she tries to retrieve the infant. However, she is too late, the infant having already died of exposure.

Genre: Audiobooks, Fiction, Classic, Slice of Life.

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Adam Bede (1859)

    George Eliot author story, writer
    Wanda McCaddon narator
    Published by Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2012.

      Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot’s first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it "a country story – full of the breath of cows and scent of hay." Adam Bede is an earnest and virtuous carpenter who is betrayed by his love, Hetty Sorrel, a pretty but foolish dairymaid who is seduced by a careless villager. The bitter and tragic consequences of her actions shake the very foundations of their serene rural community.

      While Adam Bede represents a timeless story of seduction and betrayal, it is also a deeper, impassioned meditation on the irrevocable consequences of human actions and on moral growth and redemption through suffering.

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Poster for Theatre Royal, Edinburgh

About author:

    George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the 19th century. Her novels, most famously ‘Middlemarch’, are celebrated for their realism and psychological insights.

    George Eliot was born on 22 November 1819 in rural Warwickshire. When her mother died in 1836, Eliot left school to help run her father’s household. In 1841, she moved with her father to Coventry and lived with him until his death in 1849. Eliot then travelled in Europe, eventually settling in London.

    In 1850, Eliot began contributing to the ‘Westminster Review’, a leading journal for philosophical radicals, and later became its editor. She was now at the centre of a literary circle through which she met George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived until his death in 1878. Lewes was married and their relationship caused a scandal. Eliot was shunned by friends and family.

    Lewes encouraged Eliot to write. In 1856, she began ‘Scenes of Clerical Life’, stories about the people of her native Warwickshire, which were published in ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’. Her first novel, ‘Adam Bede’, followed in 1859 and was a great success. She used a male pen name to ensure her works were taken seriously in an era when female authors were usually associated with romantic novels.

    Her other novels include ‘The Mill on the Floss’ (1860), ‘Silas Marner’ (1861), ‘Romola’ (1863), ‘Middlemarch’ (1872) and ‘Daniel Deronda’ (1876). The popularity of Eliot’s novels brought social acceptance, and Lewes and Eliot’s home became a meeting place for writers and intellectuals.

    After Lewes’ death Eliot married a friend, John Cross, who was 20 years her junior. She died on 22 December 1880 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London.

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http://ceesty.com/wLThaO — George Eliot: Adam Bede Part 01 (1859)
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http://ceesty.com/wLThss — George Eliot: Adam Bede Part 10 (1859)
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http://ceesty.com/wLThsb — George Eliot: Adam Bede Part 12 (1859)
http://ceesty.com/wLThsQ — George Eliot: Adam Bede Part 13 (1859)
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http://ceesty.com/wLThsC — George Eliot: Adam Bede Part 17 (1859)
http://ceesty.com/wLThsN — George Eliot: Adam Bede Part 18 (1859)




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