Silas Marner : the weaver of Raveloe / George Eliot ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Carroll, David, 1932-

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

England.

Adopted children--Fiction.

Adopted children.

Foundlings--Fiction.

Foundlings.

Weavers--Fiction.

Weavers.

England--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxix, 207 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1996.

Summary:

Exiled by superstition and betrayal from Lantern Yard, and cut off from faith and human love, for fifteen years the solitary simple-hearted weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom in Raveloe and devoted himself to the amassing of a hoard of golden guineas. Silas's chance of redemption, when it appears one New Year's Eve, is intimately connected with the fate of Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire. Clandestinely married, then blackmailed by his dissolute brother Dunstan, Godfrey like Silas has been trapped by his past, from which he is seeking to escape. Humorous, richly symbolic, subtly characterized and meticulously plotted, George Eliot's 'sudden inspiration' in this slim novel of rural England cut across her plans for Romola, her vast Italian Renaissance epic. In his introduction to this new edition David Carroll explores the connection, discussing Silas Marner as 'a novel about a legend and its creation', and a key linking work in all George Eliot's fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-[xxviii]).

Other Format:

Online version: Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Silas Marner.

ISBN:

0140434801

9780140434804

OCLC:

36028500

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