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Fiction · 1859

Adam Bede

George Eliot

Reading time
about 15.5 h
Length
215,011 words · 468 pages in print
Structure
55 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Book First
  2. Chapter I — The Workshop
  3. Chapter II — The Preaching
  4. Chapter III — After the Preaching
  5. Chapter IV — Home and Its Sorrows
  6. Chapter V — The Rector
  7. Chapter VI — The Hall Farm
  8. Chapter VII — The Dairy
  9. Chapter VIII — A Vocation
  10. Chapter IX — Hetty’s World
  11. Chapter X — Dinah Visits Lisbeth
  12. Chapter XI — In the Cottage
  13. Chapter XII — In the Wood
  14. Chapter XIII — Evening in the Wood
  15. Chapter XIV — The Return Home
  16. Chapter XV — The Two Bed-Chambers
  17. Chapter XVI — Links
  18. Book Second
  19. Chapter XVII — In Which the Story Pauses a Little
  20. Chapter XVIII — Church
  21. Chapter XIX — Adam on a Working Day
  22. Chapter XX — Adam Visits the Hall Farm
  23. Chapter XXI — The Night-School and the Schoolmaster
  24. Book Third
  25. Chapter XXII — Going to the Birthday Feast
  26. Chapter XXIII — Dinner-Time
  27. Chapter XXIV — The Health-Drinking
  28. Chapter XXV — The Games
  29. Chapter XXVI — The Dance
  30. Book Fourth
  31. Chapter XXVII — A crisis
  32. Chapter XXVIII — A Dilemma
  33. Chapter XXIX — The Next Morning
  34. Chapter XXX — The Delivery of the Letter
  35. Chapter XXXI — In Hetty’s Bed-Chamber
  36. Chapter XXXII — Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out”
  37. Chapter XXXIII — More Links
  38. Chapter XXXIV — The Betrothal
  39. Chapter XXXV — The Hidden Dread
  40. Book Fifth
  41. Chapter XXXVI — The Journey of Hope
  42. Chapter XXXVII — The Journey in Despair
  43. Chapter XXXVIII — The Quest
  44. Chapter XXXIX — The Tidings
  45. Chapter XL — The Bitter Waters Spread
  46. Chapter XLI — The Eve of the Trial
  47. Chapter XLII — The Morning of the Trial
  48. Chapter XLIII — The Verdict
  49. Chapter XLIV — Arthur’s Return
  50. Chapter XLV — In the Prison
  51. Chapter XLVI — The Hours of Suspense
  52. Chapter XLVII — The Last Moment
  53. Chapter XLVIII — Another Meeting in the Wood
  54. Book Sixth
  55. Chapter XLIX — At the Hall Farm
  56. Chapter L — In the Cottage
  57. Chapter LI — Sunday Morning
  58. Chapter LII — Adam and Dinah
  59. Chapter LIII — The Harvest Supper
  60. Chapter LIV — The Meeting on the Hill
  61. Chapter LV — Marriage Bells
  62. Epilogue

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1819–1880 · Victorian

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