Adam Bede

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot, was 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 used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede is a story about love, self-deception, religious feeling, innocence, and experience.