Silas Marner (The World's Best Reading)
by Eliot, George (Illustrations by David Frampton.)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Reader's Digest Association,1993. Hardback. Fine. LIke new. 7 X 4.20 X 0.90 inches. Illustrated by newly commissioned woodcuts by David Frampton. Quarter bound in green cloth over brown cloth-covered boards; green titles and illustration on front, gilt titles on spine. (See photo.) Light blue endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No DW as published. 208 pages. Comes complete with four page author biography card insert. Highly collectible. George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann, or Marion, Evans (1819-1880), was the author of several novels including Silas Marner. Middlemarch is considered not only her finest work, but one of the greatest English novels of the 19th century. "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." "An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues are given against Silas: a pocket knife, and the discovery in his own house of the bag formerly containing the money. There is the strong suggestion that Silas' best friend, William Dane, has framed him, since Silas had lent his pocket knife to William shortly before the crime was committed. Silas is proclaimed guilty. The woman Silas was to marry breaks their engagement and later marries William. With his life shattered and his heart broken, Silas leaves Lantern Yard and the city. .
Synopsis
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a dramatic novel by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) which was first published in 1861.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2750
- Title
- Silas Marner (The World's Best Reading)
- Author
- Eliot, George (Illustrations by David Frampton.)
- Illustrator
- David Frampton
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Reader's Digest Association,1993
- Place of Publication
- London
- Pages
- 208
- Size
- 7 X 4.20 X 0.90 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Victorian Foundling Linen Weaver Gold Guilt Innocence Allegory Love Religion QSE
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