Adam Bede

by Eliot, George, 1819-1880

"Adam Bede" by George Eliot is a novel first published in 1859. Set in the rural community of Hayslope in 1799, it follows a love entanglement among four characters: the virtuous carpenter Adam Bede, the beautiful but vain Hetty Sorrel, the charming young squire Arthur Donnithorne, and the devout Methodist preacher Dinah Morris. When forbidden attraction leads to seduction and devastating consequences, the story unfolds into tragedy involving child murder, guilt, and the search for redemption in a close-knit pastoral world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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English

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EPUB

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Automated conservative edition review 2026-10-20T10:04:31.504Z (historical-original-en-v2), Philippines scope. English historical author Eliot, George, died 1880; original-language author allowlist, matching sole EPUB/catalog creator, no credited contributors, no extra artwork, no flagged editorial/translation/copyright cues in isolated text. US public-domain source label and retained Gutenberg license; EPUB CRC passed. This is rule-based screening, not a worldwide rights opinion or a claim of manual review. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/507; Philippine term reference https://www.ipophil.gov.ph/copyright/. EPUB SHA256 20502290641f53487c9ca1dd8499b65f2384df9f59c4d8daa20a81beccb02893; RDF SHA256 ea7a23553e56df9934424d64f61a2a9f6b8ceae891d11957bedc0e1626012963.