Adam Bede,

這當然有中譯本，只是不知其翻譯品質。

Oxford World's Classics

"The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on."

The early short fiction of George Eliot at once attracted praise for their domestic realism, pathos, and humour, and speculation about the identity of ‘George Eliot’. Her first novel, Adam Bede, was received with great enthusiasm and at once established her as a leading novelist.