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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...
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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).