Silas Marner

by George Eliot
List(s):"Carp 500"
"Racine Library List"
Category: "Fiction - General"
Pages:190
Year of Publication:1861
Date Read:01/07/1988
Notes:Wrongly accused of a heinous theft that had been committed by his best friend, the gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, goes into exile to become a miserly recluse. In the rustic village of Raveloe he finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child who appears mysteriously one day in his isolated cottage.

COMMENTS — If you want to read more George Eliot, her novel, Middlemarch, is considered by some to be one of the best English novels ever written. Some others think it’s just long and boring.
My Rating: 8

Reviews for Silas Marner

Review - Silas Marner

I first read this book about 15 years ago, and all I remembered was "something about an old guy and a little girl." I recently reread it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd forgotten about the humor, and how descriptive Eliot's writing can be. There's a depth to the best novels of Hardy, Eliot and Austen that hasn't been reached, in my opinion, in any book written in 100 years.
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