Adam Bede

George Eliot

Adam Bede was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), and was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.

Table of contents

• BOOK ONE
• CHAPTER—2 THE PREACHING
• CHAPTER—3 AFTER THE PREACHING
• CHAPTER—4 HOME AND ITS SORROWS
• CHAPTER—5 THE RECTOR
• CHAPTER—6 THE HALL FARM
• CHAPTER—7 THE DAIRY
• CHAPTER—8 A VOCATION
• CHAPTER—9 HETTY'S WORLD
• CHAPTER—10 DINAH VISITS LISBETH
• CHAPTER—11 IN THE COTTAGE
• CHAPTER—12 IN THE WOOD
• CHAPTER—13 EVENING IN THE WOOD
• CHAPTER—14 THE RETURN HOME
• CHAPTER—15 THE TWO BED-CHAMBERS
• CHAPTER—16 LINKS
• BOOK TWO
• CHAPTER—18 CHURCH
• CHAPTER—19 ADAM ON A WORKING DAY
• CHAPTER—20 ADAM VISITS THE HALL FARM
• CHAPTER—21 THE NIGHT-SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOLMASTER
• BOOK THREE
• CHAPTER—23 DINNER-TIME
• CHAPTER—24 THE HEALTH-DRINKING
• CHAPTER—25 THE GAMES
• CHAPTER—26 THE DANCE
• BOOK FOUR
• CHAPTER—28 A DILEMMA
• CHAPTER—29 THE NEXT MORNING
• CHAPTER—30 THE DELIVERY OF THE LETTER
• CHAPTER—31 IN HETTY'S BED-CHAMBER
• CHAPTER—32 MRS POYSER “HAS HER SAY OUT”
• CHAPTER—33 MORE LINKS
• CHAPTER—34 THE BETROTHAL
• CHAPTER—35 THE HIDDEN DREAD
• BOOK FIVE
• CHAPTER—37 The Journey In Despair
• CHAPTER—38 THE QUEST
• CHAPTER—39 THE TIDINGS
• CHAPTER—40 THE BITTER WATERS SPREAD
• CHAPTER—41 THE EVE OF THE TRIAL
• CHAPTER—42 THE MORNING OF THE TRIAL
• CHAPTER—43 THE VERDICT
• CHAPTER—44 ARTHUR'S RETURN
• CHAPTER—45 IN THE PRISON
• CHAPTER—46 THE HOURS OF SUSPENSE
• CHAPTER—47 THE LAST MOMENT
• CHAPTER—48 ANOTHER MEETING IN THE WOOD
• BOOK SIX
• CHAPTER—50 IN THE COTTAGE
• CHAPTER—51 SUNDAY MORNING
• CHAPTER—52 ADAM AND DINAH
• CHAPTER—53 THE HARVEST SUPPER
• CHAPTER—54 THE MEETING ON THE HILL
• CHAPTER—55 MARRIAGE BELLS