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by George Eliot (Author)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Longman (1 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 058241640X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0582416406
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,219,936 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Silas Marner leads a simple life as a weaver in the village of Raveloe. All he does is work, he has no friends and the only thing he loves is his money, which he counts every day. Then one day his money is stolen and a little girl comes to live with him. Soon Silas Marner starts to change.


About the Author

Terence Cave is Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in French at St John's College. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. His previous publications include Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (Oxford, 1988, 1990), a translation of The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette for World's Classics (1992), and an edition of Daniel Deronda (1995). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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39 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A small literary masterpiece., 15 Jan 2002
By John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Newspaper readers were invited recently to submit their choices for the greatest works published in the English language. When the choices were totalled, two works by Shakespeare featured in the top ten. Also featured, I was pleased to see, was a novel by George Eliot. Internet users, familiar with her works, will probably guess which of her novels was chosen. For those unfamiliar with her works, the best one to start with is "Silas Marner", a much shorter one. It is short, it is easy, it even works well in schools (as I can testify), and yet it is undoubtedly a masterpiece.

George Eliot sets her 1861 novel in the early decades of the nineteenth century in rural England. Silas Marner is a weaver. In the pattern that life weaves, he usually features as a victim. Because he is unjustly "framed", he loses his reputation and his betrothed in the town where he grew up. After years working as a weaver and living like a hermit in a rural district then, he is robbed by an unknown thief who uncovers and makes off with the cache of gold guineas Silas keeps under his floor. Happiness and joy come to Silas, however, and at the end of the novel he is told, "Nobody could be happier than we are".

George Eliot tells her tale with a mixture of womanly sympathy, sharp observation, tact, and humour. Her depiction of a long-gone past, and her clear pointing of right and wrong impulses, give the story qualities that are sometimes found in morality plays or in fairy tales. Don't skip over the scenes in the local inn, the Rainbow, where the simple-minded rustics discuss relevant issues, including the existence of ghosts.

For those who appreciate hearing good literature read aloud, I recommend the unabridged audio format of "Silas Marner" where the reader is Andrew Sachs. As you might expect of this fine English actor, who made Manuel from Barcelona so memorable in "Fawlty Towers", he is especially wonderful in portraying the argumentative, credulous, muddle-headed rustics that foregather at the Rainbow. His reading extends for nearly seven hours.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, 4 Mar 2008
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Awesome book, simply awesome to the max. The kind of book that's so thrilling, you can't help but jump in the air and exclaim your glee with extreme volume every other page - indeed, I was thrown off the train for that very reason. I finished reading the book at the station in a feast of jumping and yelling, and I regret nothing.

Can't wait for the sequel!
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4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful story about rekindling lost faith in humanity, 27 May 2000
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How anyone could call this book boring! The story is amazing, a story of a man ostracised from his home town and his gradual acceptance into another. A story of true love between a man and an orphaned child of which no-one could deem possible. A story of questionning faith and Victorian morals, well recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rustic realism
How does an ordinary reader begin to review George Eliot? But this is a small masterpiece and as it is short and easy to read, a good introduction to her more daunting works... Read more
Published 10 days ago by booksetc

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous
This is one of the best books ever, it has mystery, compassion, love and a lovely ending.
Published 5 months ago by M. Le Mare

4.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful novel.
Silas Marner is an honest and kind master weaver whose life is destroyed by the betrayal of his trusted best friend. Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2007 by R. L. Barker

4.0 out of 5 stars i was whisked away by this adult fairy tale
silas marner is a truly wonderful book, a fairytale of an old lonely man cast out of his home into a fairytale village where he is ignored. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Absoulutley Fantastic
This book is about a man who is driven out of his village because he was acused wrongly of mudering a man that lived in the village with him so he moved to a different village and... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Self-indulgent in the extreme.
A book of such staggering ineptitude that I find it hard to believe that it was considered fit to publish. Read more
Published on 26 May 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Trying too hard?
I used this book for a highschool project, and, whilst it provided me with much insight of a father(figure)/child relationship, the storyline lacked depth. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 1999

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