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Adam Bede

by George Eliot

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  1. 01Front matter~2 min
  2. 02Chapter I The Workshop~20 min
  3. 03Chapter II The Preaching — part 1~22 min
  4. 04Chapter II The Preaching — part 2~25 min
  5. 05Chapter II The Preaching — part 3~5 min
  6. 06Chapter III After the Preaching~16 min
  7. 07Chapter IV Home and Its Sorrows — part 1~25 min
  8. 08Chapter IV Home and Its Sorrows — part 2~15 min
  9. 09Chapter V The Rector — part 1~25 min
  10. 10Chapter V The Rector — part 2~19 min
  11. 11Chapter VI The Hall Farm — part 1~25 min
  12. 12Chapter VI The Hall Farm — part 2~8 min
  13. 13Chapter VII The Dairy~13 min
  14. 14Chapter VIII A Vocation~21 min
  15. 15Chapter IX Hetty’s World~18 min
  16. 16Chapter X Dinah Visits Lisbeth — part 1~25 min
  17. 17Chapter X Dinah Visits Lisbeth — part 2~7 min
  18. 18Chapter XI In the Cottage~22 min
  19. 19Chapter XII In the Wood — part 1~25 min
  20. 20Chapter XII In the Wood — part 2~3 min
  21. 21Chapter XIII Evening in the Wood~14 min
  22. 22Chapter XIV The Return Home~23 min
  23. 23Chapter XV The Two Bed-Chambers — part 1~22 min
  24. 24Chapter XV The Two Bed-Chambers — part 2~13 min
  25. 25Chapter XVI Links — part 1~25 min
  26. 26Chapter XVI Links — part 2~10 min
  27. 27Chapter XVII In Which the Story Pauses a Little~25 min
  28. 28Chapter XVIII Church — part 1~24 min
  29. 29Chapter XVIII Church — part 2~25 min
  30. 30Chapter XVIII Church — part 3~10 min

A few words to begin

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799. The afternoon sun was warm on the five workmen there, busy upon doors and window-frames and wainscoting. A scent of pine-wood from a tentlike pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; the slanting sunbeams shone through the transparent shavings that flew before the steady plane, and lit up the fine grain of the oak panelling which stood propped against the wall. On a heap of those soft shavings a rough, grey shepherd dog had made himself a pleasant bed, and was lying with his nose between his fore-paws, occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of the five workmen, who was carving a shield in the centre of a wooden mantelpiece. It was to this workman that the strong barytone belonged which was heard above the sound of plane and hammer singing—

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