Silas Marner the Weaver of Raveloe
A gentle linen weaver in a small English town is wrongly accused of a theft goes into seclusion and finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage.
Main Author: | Eliot, George, 1819-1880. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
c1993.
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Series: |
Everyman's library ;
#141 |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
A gentle linen weaver in a small English town is wrongly accused of a theft goes into seclusion and finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage. |
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Physical Description: |
xxx, 206 p. ; 22 cm. |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxi). |
ISBN: |
0679420304 9780679420309 |
Author Notes: |
With Lewes's encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton," for Blackwood's Magazine in 1857; it was followed by two more stories published under the pseudonym George Elliot--"George" because it was Lewes's name and "Eliot" because, she said, it was good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word." At the age of thirty-nine she used her memories of Warwickshire to write her first long novel, Adam Bede (1859), a book that established her as the foremost woman novelist in her day. Then came The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Romola (1863). Her masterpiece and one of the greatest English novels, Middlemarch , was published in 1871-72. Her last work was Daniel Deronda (1876). After Lewes's death George Eliot married John Walter Cross. He was forty; she was sixty-one. Before her death on December 22, 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction. |