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Silas Marner George Eliot

Silas Marner By George Eliot

Silas Marner by George Eliot


Summary

Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire, contracts a secret marriage.

Silas Marner Summary

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot

Gold! - his own gold - brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away! Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The son of the wealthy local Squire, Godfrey Cass also seeks an escape from his past. One snowy winter, two events change the course of their lives: Silas's gold is stolen and, a child crawls across his threshold. Combining the qualities of a fable with a rich evocation of rural life in the early years of the nineteenth century, Silas Marner (1861) is a masterpiece of construction and a powerful meditation on the value of communal bonds in a mysterious world.

About George Eliot

Juliette Atkinson is Lecturer in English at University College, London. She is the author of Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives (OUP, 2010) and French Novels and the Victorians (OUP, 2017). She was previously editor for Oxford World's Classics new edition of The Mill on the Floss (2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of George Eliot Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe Selected Variants Explanatory Notes

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GOR008700788
9780198724643
0198724640
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot
Used - Like New
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2017-07-13
256
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