| Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe Contributor(s): Eliot, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108060412 ISBN-13: 9781108060417 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1330 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.38 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 718 Reading Level: 9.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In her third novel, reissued here in its first edition of 1861, George Eliot (1819-80) charts the life of the cataleptic, miserly weaver Silas Marner. Arriving in insular Raveloe after a wrongful expulsion from his Calvinist community in the north, Silas is a foreign and outcast figure, left alone to accumulate a useless fortune through his loom in the dawn of the new industrial age. His unhappy life is rendered unrecognisable when his fortune is stolen and he adopts a child. Eliot's first two novels, Adam Bede and Mill on the Floss, had dealt with tragedy and the injustices faced by fallen women. With its happy ending and suffusion of fairy-tale elements, Silas Marner marks a turning point in her career. Alongside this development, however, the novel continues to raise Eliot's characteristic questions about social inequalities, the effects of extreme religion, and the worth of human experience. |