Adam Bede

Adam Bede is George Eliot's first novel and also the name of its protagonist, a tall, stalwart, moral, and unusually competent carpenter. It was published anonymously in 1859, which took at once with both critic and public. The novel is about love, self-deception, religious feeling, innocence, and experience. George Eliot herself described the work as “a country story—full of the breath of cows and the scent of hay.”

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