Dimensions: 7.71in - 5.10in - 0.66in - 0.Print Silas Marner (Penguin Black Classics)Īuthor(s): George Eliot David Carroll (Introduction by, Notes by) Q.which marks a classical work' Henry Jame Book Details It is more nearly a masterpiece it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect.
'I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works. If you enjoyed Silas Marner, you might like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, also available in Penguin Classics. In 1857, she published Scenes of Clerical Life, the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot', including The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator, and later editor, of the Westminster Review. David Carroll's introduction is complemented by the original Penguin Classics edition introduction by Q.D. This text uses the Cabinet edition, revised by George Eliot in 1878. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life. His fate, and that of Eppie, the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past.
But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.
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