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1859 novel by George Eliot

This article is about the book. For the film adaptation, see Adam Bede (film). For the American politician, see James Bede.

Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first 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 regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature.^[2][3] Eliot described the novel as "a country story full of the breath of cows and scent of hay".

Plot summary

According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967),

"the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison."

The novel follows the lives of four characters in