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Silas Marner

The Weaver of Raveloe

Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

By George Eliot
Introduction by Chris Bohjalian

By George Eliot
Introduction by Chris Bohjalian

By George Eliot

By George Eliot

By George Eliot
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

By George Eliot
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

By George Eliot

By George Eliot

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

Paperback $9.00

May 08, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757495

Mass Market Paperback $4.95

Sep 01, 1981 | ISBN 9780553212297

Hardcover $24.00

Mar 09, 1993 | ISBN 9780679420309

Ebook $3.99

Jan 31, 2006 | ISBN 9780553902273

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    About Silas Marner

    Eliot’s penetrating portrayal of a miser who learns to love an orphaned and abandoned child, this novel is a cherished masterwork and a moving story of redemption by the one of the Victorian era’s most accomplished novelists.

    About Silas Marner

    Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.

    About Silas Marner

    When Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marner’s redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliot’s most beloved and widely read work.

    The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot’s greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.

    Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

    About Silas Marner

    When Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marner’s redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliot’s most beloved and widely read work.

    The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot’s greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.

    Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

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    About George Eliot

    Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her… More about George Eliot

    About George Eliot

    Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her… More about George Eliot

    About George Eliot

    Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her… More about George Eliot

    About George Eliot

    Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her… More about George Eliot

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $9.00
    Published by Modern Library
    May 08, 2001 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757495

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $4.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Sep 01, 1981 | 208 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553212297

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Mar 09, 1993 | 248 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679420309

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jan 31, 2006 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780553902273

    Praise

    "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

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