Silas Marner: Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

Eliot, George

ISBN 10: 0679420304 / ISBN 13: 9780679420309

Published by Everyman's Library, 1993

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Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9. Seller Inventory # G0679420304I3N01

Bibliographic Details

Title: Silas Marner: Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis:

After suffering betrayal and rejection, Silas Marner leaves his community to settle in a strange place. There the lonely weaver becomes obsessed with accumulating money, until one day a little golden-haired orphan girl wanders into his home... Set at the beginning of the industrial revolution, Silas Marner weaves a telling social commentary into an inspiring tale of love and redemption.

Review:

"More strikingly than in any other novel, George Eliot combines pastoral, symbolic, legendary elements with a rooted local setting and an evocation of ordinary lives and credible moral choices. It is a fine Shakespearian-Wordsworthian story of loss and restoration . . . Silas Marner is a compound of English life rendered with 'rich density of detail, ' as Henry James described it, and the imaginative patterning of romance and myth."
--from the Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

"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