Adam Bede by George Eliot
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -A young carpenter falls in love with the village beauty. She, however, has set her sights on a dashing army captain who's the son of the wealthy local squire. Meanwhile, a beautiful and virtuous young woman preacher arrives in the village. What happens to these people and the strange twists and turns that their lives take are described in the rest of the book.
Adam Bede was George Eliot's first published novel. Published in 1859, the book has remained a firm favorite with readers and academicians alike and is still taught in many English literature courses all over the world.
George Eliot was the pen name of well respected scholar, translator and journalist Mary Ann Evans. She adopted a male pseudonym so she could be viewed as a serious writer. Many Victorian women writers had to combat the prevailing notion that women novelists wrote only light hearted romances or Gothic tales.
Eliot was largely a self taught person. Her father was the manager of a stately home in Warwickshire and it was here that Eliot had access to the extensive library. She was a voracious reader and taught herself the Classical languages, which she draws upon extensively in her work. In fact, only one of her seven novels can be set without using Greek typeface. Living on the estate also provided her a view of the immense contrast between the lives of the workers and the landowners.
She began writing for a radical left-wing journal, The Westminster Review. One of her essays was titled “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” in which she criticized the dramatic and over emotional writing style and plots of books written by women. Following this, she decided to disprove the theory that women were only capable of such work. A series of stories entitled Scenes of a Clerical Life was published under the pseudonym George Eliot in 1857. Adam Bede was her first complete novel. It met with immediate success and there was intense speculation about the real identity of its author. When impostors began to emerge, claiming authorship, Mary Ann Evans revealed herself to be the real person behind the name.
Adam Bede is notable for its compassion and humane outlook on life. Charles Dickens praised it for its authentic representation of rural life. Though many critics have found the plot to be contrived and subject to frequent “meddling” by the author herself, the story remains interesting and engaging even today more than a hundred years after it was first published.
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Episodes
03 – After the Preaching
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 – Home and Its Sorrows
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 – The Hall Farm
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 13.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
09 – Hetty’s World
December 25, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
10 – Dinah Visits Lisbeth
December 24, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.2 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
11 – In The Cottage
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 – Evening In The Wood
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
14 – The Return Home
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
15 – The Two Bed-Chambers
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
17 – In Which The Story Pauses A Little
December 17, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
19 – Adam on a Working Day
December 15, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
20 – Adam Visits the Hall Farm
December 14, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.2 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
21 – The Night School and the Schoolmaster
December 13, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
22 – Going to the Birthday Feast
December 12, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
24 – The Health-Drinking
December 10, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
25 – Book 3, Chapter 25: The Games
December 09, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
26 – Book 3, Chapter 26: The Dance
December 08, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
29 – Book 4,Chapter 29:The Next Morning
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
30 – The Delivery of the Letter
December 04, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
31 – In Hetty’s Bed-Chamber
December 03, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
32 – Mrs Poyser Has Her Say Out
December 02, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
35 – The Hidden Dread
November 29, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
36 – The Journey of Hope
November 28, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
37 – The Journey in Despair
November 27, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 13.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
40 – The Bitter Waters Spread
November 24, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
41 – The Eve of the Trial
November 23, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
42 – The Morning of the Trial
November 22, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
44 – Arthur’s Return
November 20, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
45 – In the Prison
November 19, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
46 – The Hours of Suspense
November 18, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
47 – The Last Moment
November 17, 2023 00:00 - 3 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
48 – Another Meeting in the Wood
November 16, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
49 – Book 6, Chapter 49: At the Hall Farm
November 15, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
50 – In the Cottage
November 14, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com