George Eliot's Silas Marner

by George Eliot

286 pages

English language

Published Dec. 1, 1930 by D.C. Heath and Company.

OCLC Number:: 4332002

(24 reviews)

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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laura reviewed Silas Marner (Bantam Classics) by George Eliot

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5 stars

read for school. pleasantly surprised at how much i enjoyed it.

quaad reviewed Silas Marner by George Eliot (Penguin classics)

This book is full of weirdos, rocks and dirt.

5 stars

I love George Eliot’s writing. I was reminded of this one when I saw that @mouse was reading it and went to see if I had a copy. I found it, then I couldn’t put it down. (I’m very suggestible when it comes to George Eliot and Jane Austen) Where Austen is almost all sparkling dialog, I love Eliot’s descriptiveness, the way she captures the feeling of a place down to the dirt and the rocks. The characters are relatably weird and superstitious; the cultural norms and beliefs that shift from village to village make me nostalgic for an unconnected world. Morality in the story is very black and white but that gives it the quality of a fable. It casts Silas Marner as a kind of spiritual figure, an outsider who becomes the moral center; kind of a conduit for the metaphysical life of the village.