Legend Classics: Silas Marner

Legend Classics: Silas Marner
George Eliot
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
19 Jan 2023 UK
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9781915054883
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. "Silas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber. Silas loses his sweetheart, reputation, and as a result, has to move out of the town. He dedicates the next fifteen years of his life to earning money. Despite developing an unhealthy obsession, he is still the same just and honest person albeit rather stingy by this time as monetary enrichment became the sole purpose of his being. But when injustice strikes again, Silas is about to change his perception of life forever. What he first considers to be the ultimate disaster of his existence, turns into the thing that gives a new meaning to his life. This moral tale will set things in the right place presenting a picture of justice and love that rise above ignorance and greed. The work is regarded as a pastoral novel and a moral tale with fairytale elements. A notable feature is Eliot' s representation of the effects of industrialisation. Indeed, upon Silas' s return to his home town in his old age, he can barely recognise the town where new buildings and factories have been erected. The author deploys her signature technique of setting the novel in a more distant past, which gives her the advantage of scope and hindsight. Published a year before Hugo' s world-famous Les Miserables, Silas Marner tackles many similar tropes as effectively and authentically but in a more condensed form - in particular, finding the meaning in life when there seems to be nothing left to hold on to. The Legend Classics series: Around the World in Eighty Days The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Importance of Being Earnest Alice' s Adventures in Wonderland The Metamorphosis The Railway Children The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Three Men in a Boat The Time Machine Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Jungle Book The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Dracula A Study in Scarlet Leaves of Grass The Secret Garden The War of the Worlds A Christmas Carol Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Heart of Darkness The Scarlet Letter This Side of Paradise Oliver Twist The Picture of Dorian Gray Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Emma The Trial A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Grimm Fairy Tales The Awakening Mrs Dalloway Gulliver' s Travels The Castle of Otranto Silas Marner Hard Times
George Eliot (1819-80) is the pseudonym of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans. She is primarily known for her realist mode of writing through which she addresses a large spectrum of themes and issues from social mobility and industrialisation to moral choices and cultural identity. The author also received a significant amount of ill fame for going against Victorian conventions as she, for instance, started cohabiting with a married man, Henry Lewes - a relationship that at some point became a menage-a-trois. She later, however, was admired by feminist authors and even those who largely rejected Victorian writing, such as Virginia Woolf. Eliot was mostly self-taught having left formal education at the age of sixteen. Among her other widely read works are Adam Bede (1859), Middlemarch (1871-72) and a behemoth novel Daniel Deronda (1876).

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