Silas Marner (Legend Classics) - George Eliot

Descriere Silas Marner (Legend Classics) - George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. Silas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber. Silas loses his sweetheart, reputation, and as a result, has to move out of the town. He dedicates the next fifteen years of his life to earning money. Despite developing an unhealthy obsession, he is still the same just and honest person albeit rather stingy by this time as monetary enrichment became the sole purpose of his being. But when injustice strikes again, Silas is about to change his perception of life forever. What he first considers to be the ultimate disaster of his existence, turns into the thing that gives a new meaning to his life. This moral tale will set things in the right place presenting a picture of justice and love that rise above ignorance and greed. The work is regarded as a pastoral novel and a moral tale with fairytale elements. A notable feature is Eliot's representation of the effects of industrialisation. Indeed, upon Silas's return to his home town in his old age, he can barely recognise the town where new buildings and factories have been erected. The author deploys her signature technique of setting the novel in a more distant past, which gives her the advantage of scope and hindsight. Published a year before Hugo's world-famous Les Misérables, Silas Marner tackles many similar tropes as effectively and authentically but in a more condensed form - in particular, finding the meaning in life when there seems to be nothing left to hold on to. The Legend Classics series: \nAround the World in Eighty Days \nThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn \nThe Importance of Being Earnest \nAlice's Adventures in Wonderland \nThe Metamorphosis \nThe Railway Children \nThe Hound of the Baskervilles \nFrankenstein \nWuthering Heights \nThree Men in a Boat \nThe Time Machine \nLittle Women \nAnne of Green Gables \nThe Jungle Book \nThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories \nDracula \nA Study in Scarlet \nLeaves of Grass \nThe Secret Garden \nThe War of the Worlds \nA Christmas Carol \nStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde \nHeart of Darkness \nThe Scarlet Letter \nThis Side of Paradise \nOliver Twist \nThe Picture of Dorian Gray \nTreasure Island \nThe Turn of the Screw \nThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer \nEmma \nThe Trial \nA Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe \nGrimm Fairy Tales \nThe Awakening \nMrs

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Legends Press

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ENSTK

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9781915054883

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1

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