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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Longman (1 Nov 1999)
  • ISBN-10: 058241640X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0582416406
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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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.

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George Eliot's own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a narrow congregation, but the events that took place during one of his cataleptic foots led to the loss of everything that he valued. Now he lives a withdrawn half-life and is an object of suspicion to his new neighbours; he exists only for his work and his golden guineas. But when his precious money is stolen and, shortly after, seemingly and mysteriously replaced by the child Eppie, Silas is awakened to life by the redemptive power of love.

George Eliot's affectionate but unsentimental portrait of rural life combines irony, humour and sharp social comment. Above all, she demonstrate a profound and enduring knowledge of the human mind and heart. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure gold, 8 Nov 2004
By Peter Reeve (Thousand Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
If you have a heart, the story of Silas Marner will warm it. You are better coming to it fresh, without knowing anything of the simple yet solid plot, so I will say nothing of it. I will just urge you to read this wonderful book. Eliot writes beautifully and from page one, you realize you are in the hands of a true artist. This is a very human, very English story of simple people living through those very basic emotions that make the world turn and give the universe meaning.
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38 of 54 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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This review is from: Silas Marner: Complete & Unabridged (Audio Cassette)
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 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, 4 Mar 2008
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This review is from: Silas Marner (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
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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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous
This is one of the best books ever, it has mystery, compassion, love and a lovely ending.
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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 21 months ago by R. L. Barker

5.0 out of 5 stars Reversal of fortune, recovery of faith
George Eliot, born Marian Evans in 1819, spent most of her early life in rural Warwickshire. This early upbringing is apparent from her easy comfort in writing about country... Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2005 by Kurt Messick

1.0 out of 5 stars Tedium that eats away at your soul
Don't read this. It's a hundred pages too long and a very poor story to begin with.

A novel for people who are looking for fancy prose rather than substance, though I doubt even... Read more

Published on 2 Jun 2005 by noname

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
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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
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1.0 out of 5 stars Self-indulgent in the extreme.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating read
I, like another reviewer, also had to study this book for my exams and it was the only one that I found remotely interesting. Read more
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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
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