Adam Bede (Annotated)

Published in 1859, Adam Bede is George Eliot's first full-length novel and a foundational work of Victorian realism. Set in the rural Midlands at the turn of the nineteenth century, it traces the intersecting lives of the upright carpenter Adam Bede, the vain and vulnerable Hetty Sorrel, the young squire Arthur Donnithorne, and the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris. Eliot's prose combines moral seri...