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Adam Bede

By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Nadia May
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George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love.

Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, delights only in her baubles - and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand.

Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution. Only in the lovely Dinah Morris, a preacher, does Adam find his redemption.

Public Domain (P)1995 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Heartfelt
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The narrator deserves more than 5 stars. wonderful story brought fully alive. I lived inside the story.

Wonderful narration

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Nadia May is a fabulous narrator. I love Eliot and any book read by Nadia is going to be of great quality. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Another good one.

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