Adam Bede by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Adam Bede by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the rural English Midlands in 1799, Adam Bede follows a community bound by labor, faith, and reputation. Adam, a skilled young carpenter, prides himself on steadiness and moral clarity as he works alongside his friends and family in the village of Hayslope. His quiet certainties are tested when he becomes entangled in a web of affection, expectation, and social pressure centered on two very different women: Hetty Sorrel, a beautiful and vain dairymaid whose hunger for admiration leads her toward dangerous choices, and Dinah Morris, a compassionate Methodist preacher whose uncommon vocation challenges the village's ideas about a woman's place. As private desires collide with public judgment, George Eliot traces how gossip, class, and religious conviction shape lives, and how one mistake can ripple through an entire community. With psychological depth and sharp social observation, the novel explores duty versus longing, the cost of self-deception, and the possibility of sympathy and moral growth amid hardship. Eliot's richly detailed world invites listeners to feel the rhythms of farm and workshop, the pull of conscience, and the fragile ties that hold people together when scandal threatens to tear them apart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:20:25) Chapter 01

(00:44:17) Chapter 02

(01:28:15) Chapter 02

(01:58:57) Chapter 03

(02:17:49) Chapter 03

(02:46:24) Chapter 04

(03:17:45) Chapter 04

(03:36:29) Chapter 05

(04:13:16) Chapter 05

(04:37:24) Chapter 06

(05:08:36) Chapter 06

(05:29:22) Chapter 07

(05:44:41) Chapter 07

(06:04:53) Chapter 08

(06:23:48) Chapter 08

(06:52:28) Chapter 09

(07:07:03) Chapter 09

(07:41:45) Chapter 10

(08:18:38) Chapter 10

(08:33:39) Chapter 11

(08:57:57) Chapter 11

(09:20:59) Chapter 12

(09:45:19) Chapter 12

(10:05:25) Chapter 13

(10:17:03) Chapter 13

(10:51:16) Chapter 14

(11:10:00) Chapter 14

(11:33:00) Chapter 15

(12:02:05) Chapter 15

(12:35:53) Chapter 16

(13:03:30) Chapter 16

(13:19:05) Chapter 17

(13:39:25) Chapter 17

(14:05:34) Chapter 18

(14:54:08) Chapter 18

(15:33:36) Chapter 19

(15:48:23) Chapter 19

(16:25:41) Chapter 20

(17:02:30) Chapter 20

(17:31:17) Chapter 21

(18:06:14) Chapter 21

(18:38:24) Chapter 22

(19:03:24) Chapter 22

(19:37:35) Chapter 23

(19:48:19) Chapter 23

(20:07:41) Chapter 24

(20:24:58) Chapter 24

(20:51:44) Chapter 25

(21:12:31) Chapter 25

(21:36:56) Chapter 26

(22:04:38) Chapter 26

(22:24:44) Chapter 27

(22:47:00) Chapter 27

(23:10:18) Chapter 28

(23:26:30) Chapter 28

(23:57:13) Chapter 29

(24:15:45) Chapter 29

(24:29:24) Chapter 30

(24:56:14) Chapter 30

(25:19:14) Chapter 31

(25:39:22) Chapter 31

(26:02:56) Chapter 32

(26:26:04) Chapter 32

(26:57:19) Chapter 33

(27:12:37) Chapter 33

(27:45:29) Chapter 34

(27:55:02) Chapter 34

(28:17:46) Chapter 35

(28:30:06) Chapter 35

(28:53:31) Chapter 36

(29:13:41) Chapter 36

(29:51:17) Chapter 37

(30:22:31) Chapter 37

(30:51:04) Chapter 38

(31:26:28) Chapter 38

(31:53:26) Chapter 39

(32:09:18) Chapter 39

(32:28:43) Chapter 40

(32:48:52) Chapter 40

(33:02:02) Chapter 41

(33:15:37) Chapter 41

(33:32:34) Chapter 42

(33:43:20) Chapter 42

(34:09:13) Chapter 43

(34:26:48) Chapter 43

(35:03:14) Chapter 44

(35:21:52) Chapter 44

(36:02:29) Chapter 45

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