Adam Bede

George Eliot

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

Part 1 of 2. An upright village carpenter loves a pretty, vain dairymaid; the young squire secretly seduces her; and a serene woman preacher watches over them all. George Eliot's first novel of rural England.

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