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Author Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Title Adam Bede / George Eliot
Published [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic document (964 pages))
Contents Title; Contents; BOOK ONE; 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 BedChambers; Chapter XVI Links; BOOK TWO; 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 FarmChapter XXI The NightSchool and the Schoolmaster; BOOK THREE; Chapter XXII Going to the Birthday Feast; Chapter XXIII Dinner-Time; Chapter XXIV The HealthDrinking; Chapter XXV The Games; Chapter XXVI The Dance; BOOK FOUR; Chapter XXVII A Crisis; Chapter XXVIII A Dilemma; Chapter XXIX The Next Morning; Chapter XXX The Delivery of the Letter; Chapter XXXI In Hetty's BedChamber; Chapter XXXII Mrs. Poyser "Has Her Say Out"; Chapter XXXIII More Links; Chapter XXXIV The Betrothal; Chapter XXXV The Hidden Dread; BOOK FIVE; Chapter XXXVI The Journey of Hope
Chapter XXXVII The Journey in DespairChapter XXXVIII The Quest; Chapter XXXIX The Tidings; Chapter XL The Bitter Waters Spread; Chapter XLI The Eve of the Trial; Chapter XLII The Morning of the Trial; Chapter XLIII The Verdict; Chapter XLIV Arthur's Return; Chapter XLV In the Prison; Chapter XLVI The Hours of Suspense; Chapter XLVII The Last Moment; Chapter XLVIII Another Meeting in the Wood; BOOK SIX; Chapter XLIX At the Hall Farm; Chapter L In the Cottage; Chapter LI Sunday Morning; Chapter LII Adam and Dinah; Chapter LIII The Harvest Supper; Chapter LIV The Meeting on the Hill
Summary Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community. The life and expectations of the good carpenter Adam Bede are disrupted when the local lord takes liberties below his station and his conscience. The novel is a discussion of class and education and also of religion, with the female Methodist preacher Dinah Morris coming to the fore as the novel progresses
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"First published in 1859"--Page 2
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English
Subject Young women -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Infanticide -- Fiction
FICTION -- Romance -- General.
Infanticide
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Young women
SUBJECT England -- Fiction
Subject England
Genre/Form Romance fiction
Didactic fiction
Fiction
Didactic fiction.
Love stories.
Didactic fiction.
Romance fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781775415930
1775415937
1775569942
9781775569947