- Weavers, Social life and customs, Conduct of life, Foundlings
Eliot's touching novel of a miser and a little child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. The gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the town of Raveloe after being falsely accused of a heinous theft. There he begins to find redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child he discovers in his isolated cottage.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- First published
- November 2003
- Pages
- 241
- Publisher
- The Macmillan company, HarperCollins Publishers, Longman Group United Kingdom
- Editions
- 628
- Language
- gle, German, Japanese, French
- ISBN
- 9781540825391
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“IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak-there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men who, by the side of the brawny countryfolk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.”
George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
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