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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993.
Series:	Everyman's library ; #141
Subjects:	Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Adopted children > Fiction. Foundlings > Fiction. Weavers > Fiction. England > Fiction. Domestic fiction > England.
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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.
Physical Description:	xxx, 206 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxi).
ISBN:	0679420304 9780679420309
Author Notes:	MARY ANN EVANS was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England. After her father's death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the Westminster Review, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce. In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878. 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 "a 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). Before her death in 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction.