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  • Published: 1 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409059714
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Silas Marner




A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith

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Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated existence near the country village of Raveloe, hoarding his gold. One night his fortune is stolen and Silas loses everything he holds dear. But then the golden-haired child Eppie appears in his home, and Silas begins to reform bonds of faith and human connectedness that he once renounced forever.

'A great novel of unquenchable optimism and boundless humanity' Guardian

  • Published: 1 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409059714
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

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About the author

George Eliot

George Eliot was born Mary Anne Evans in Chilvers Coton, England in 1819 on an estate managed by her father. When her mother did she left school to run the household, continuing her education alone in the estate’s library. She was multi-lingual and steeped in classical literature by the time a series of her essays and translations led to an invitation to London to edit the prestigious Westminster Review—anonymously, for fear a female editor would put off readers. When nearly 40 she published the story collection Scenes of Clerical Life, under the pseudonym George Eliot, partly because she was living with a married man, radical publisher George Henry Lewes, and feared being shunned by the public. Bu tin 1849 her fist novel Adam Bede, with its startling realism and psychologically astute characterizations, caused a sensation—and prompted an imposter to claim authorship. Evans revealed herself and was indeed ostracized, although less so with each successful new book, from The Mill on the Floss to Silas Marner and Middlemarch. After 25 years together Lewes died and, still grieving, she married their banker, a man 20 years her junior. She died shortly thereafter in 1880.

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Praise for Silas Marner

A great novel of unquenchable optimism and boundless humanity

Guardian

Eliot's finest pastoral tale... notable for the sharpness of its rural detail, its tactful symbolism and its variation between high melodrama and broad comedy

Guardian

It is a book that lifts your heart, makes you feel spiritually enriched and persuades you of the potential goodness of human nature

Daily Mail