Synopsis
The lonely life of a miserly recluse is changed when he takes in an orphaned girl and raises her as his own daughter
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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.
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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
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Silas Marner
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Watermill Press, 1987
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Silas Marner
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Silas Marner
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback in Very Good Condition. A Watermill Classic. Complete and unabridged. Clean and unmarked pictorial wrappers, trace wear to extremities, soundly bound, square. Page edges and pages clean, unmarked, toned. The story of a gentle weaver in a small English town who is accused of a heinous theft actually committed by his best friend. He exiles himself to the rustic village of Raveloe and becomes a lonely recluse. He finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child who appears at his cottage one day and through the neighborliness of the the village community. . George Eliot's third novel, first published in 1861. 216 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches. Signet Classics, USA, 1968. Seller Inventory # 022341