Silas Marner - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014043030X ISBN 13: 9780140430301

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1968

Synopsis

The lonely life of a miserly recluse is changed when he takes in an orphaned girl and raises her as his own daughter

About this title

Book Description:

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.

From the Publisher:

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.

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 014043030X
• ISBN 13: 9780140430301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266