In rural Hayslope, upright carpenter Adam Bede loves the vain dairymaid Hetty Sorrel, whose ruin by the young squire Arthur Donnithorne brings tragedy and draws Adam toward the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris.
Books mentioned in Adam Bede (4)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey's Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Bartle Massey had lent him.”
Holy Living and Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor: “he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War”
The Holy War by John Bunyan: “Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey's Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Bartle Massey had lent him.”
Valentine and Orson: “Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey's Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Bartle Massey had lent him.”
Books that mention Adam Bede (2)
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope: “I don't subscribe to Mudie's, because when I asked for 'Adam Bede,' they always sent me the 'Bandit Chief.”
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: “Adam Bede is a bore. I almost died reading that thing.”