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Silas Marner - (Bantam Classics) by George Eliot (Paperback)

Silas Marner - (Bantam Classics) by  George Eliot (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Silas Marner, a weaver in early nineteenth-century England, secludes himself to guard his gold and avoid relationships. The gold is one day stolen and replaced with a golden-haired child.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>After suffering betrayal and rejection, Silas Marner leaves his community to settle in a strange place. There the lonely weaver becomes obsessed with accumulating money, until one day a little golden-haired orphan girl wanders into his home... Set at the beginning of the industrial revolution, Silas Marner weaves a telling social commentary into an inspiring tale of love and redemption.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"I think <b>Silas Marner</b> 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<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.F. Strauss's <i>The Life of Jesus Critically Examined</i> (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism. After her father's death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the <i>Westminster Review</i>, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce. In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878. <p/>With Lewes's encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton," for <i>Blackwood's Magazine</i> in 1857; it was followed by two more stories published under the pseudonym George Elliot-"George" because it was Lewes's name and "Eliot" because, she said, it was good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word." At the age of thirty-nine she used her memories of Warwickshire to write her first long novel, <i>Adam Bede</i> (1859), a book that established her as the foremost woman novelist in her day. Then came <i>The Mill on the Floss </i>(1860), <b>Silas Marner</b> (1861), and <i>Romola</i> (1863). Her masterpiece and one of the greatest English novels, <b>Middlemarch</b>, was published in 1871-72. Her last work was <i>Daniel Deronda</i> (1876). After Lewes's death George Eliot married John Walter Cross. He was forty; she was sixty-one. Before her death on December 22, 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction.

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