Adam Bede: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Adam Bede, credited to George Eliot, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Adam Bede, by George Eliot Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th century English literature. The story's plot follows four characters rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but thoughtless Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent Methodist lay preacher. (Summary Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Adam Bede
• Author credits: George Eliot
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 20:34:47

Catalogue topics

• eliot
• fiction
• romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. 01 – The Workshop — 20:25
2. 02 - The Preaching — 43:52
3. 03 - After the Preaching — 18:49
4. 04 - Home and Its Sorrows — 31:17
5. 05 - The Rector — 36:42
6. 06 - The Hall Farm — 31:08
7. 07 - The Dairy — 15:17
8. 08 - A Vocation — 18:52
9. 09 - Hetty's World — 14:33
10. 10 - Dinah Visits Lisbeth — 36:48
11. 11 - In The Cottage — 24:14
12. 12 - In the Wood — 24:17
13. 13 - Evening In The Wood — 11:37
14. 14 - The Return Home — 18:42
15. 15 - The Two Bed-Chambers — 29:01
16. 16 - Links — 27:33
17. 17 - In Which The Story Pauses A Little — 20:17
18. 18 - Church — 48:27
19. 19 - Adam on a Working Day — 14:45
20. 20 - Adam Visits the Hall Farm — 36:44
21. 21 - The Night School and the Schoolmaster — 34:52
22. 22 - Going to the Birthday Feast — 24:56
23. 23 - Dinner-Time — 10:44
24. 24 - The Health-Drinking — 17:17

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