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Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 90
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
A guide to reading "Silas Marner" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
7) Silas Marner
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the
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Language
English
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Description
"George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, [this book] is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house,...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, by George Eliot, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
11) Brother Jacob
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books-Virago Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Davy Faux is a duplicitous character who thinks he has escaped answering for his crimes, but is brought to justice in an ironic and fitting way.
14) George Eliot
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays and excerpts published since 1948 on the novels of George Eliot.
17) George Eliot
Publisher
Artsmagic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at Marian Evans, and her pious childhood up into adulthood, before emerging as novelist George Eliot, author of 'Adam Bede'; ' Silas Marner'; 'Daniel Deronda' and more.
18) George Eliot
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 414
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
One chapter is devoted to her life, and the other chapters each emphasize a subject of thematic and aesthetic importance and two or three of her fictional works.