Eliot George - Silas Marner - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate and that of Eppie the little girl he adopts is entwined with Godfrey Cass son of the village Squire who like Silas is trapped by his past. Silas Marner George Eliot's favourite of her novels combines humour rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life. This text uses the Cabinet edition revised by George Eliot in 1878. David Carroll's introduction is complemented by the original Penguin Classics edition introduction by Q. D. Leavis. Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the Westminster Review. In 1857, she published Scenes of Clerical Life the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of George Eliot' including The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. If you enjoyed Silas Marner you might like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter also available in Penguin Classics. I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple rounded consummate aspect which marks a classical work Henry James
Title: Silas Marner
Author(s): Eliot George, David Carroll
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439754
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Category: Classic Fiction