Silas Marner: Introduction by Rosemary Ashton (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Eliot, George

ISBN 10: 0679420304 / ISBN 13: 9780679420309

Published by Everyman's Library, 1993

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This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps. Seller Inventory # DBV.0679420304.A

Bibliographic Details

Title: Silas Marner: Introduction by Rosemary ...

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: acceptable

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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