
Silas Marner
The Weaver of Raveloe
George Eliot(Author)
Juliette Atkinson(Editor)
Oxford University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 13. July 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-872464-3 (ISBN)
Description
Gold! - his own gold - brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away!
Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The son of the wealthy local Squire, Godfrey Cass also seeks an escape from his past. One snowy winter, two events change the course of their lives: Silas's gold is stolen and, a child crawls across his threshold.
Combining the qualities of a fable with a rich evocation of rural life in the early years of the nineteenth century, Silas Marner (1861) is a masterpiece of construction and a powerful meditation on the value of communal bonds in a mysterious world.
Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The son of the wealthy local Squire, Godfrey Cass also seeks an escape from his past. One snowy winter, two events change the course of their lives: Silas's gold is stolen and, a child crawls across his threshold.
Combining the qualities of a fable with a rich evocation of rural life in the early years of the nineteenth century, Silas Marner (1861) is a masterpiece of construction and a powerful meditation on the value of communal bonds in a mysterious world.
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2nd Revised edition
Language
English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Revised edition
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Height: 195 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
184 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-872464-3 (9780198724643)
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Juliette Atkinson is Lecturer in English at University College, London. She is the author of Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives (OUP, 2010) and French Novels and the Victorians (OUP, 2017). She was previously editor for Oxford World's Classics new edition of The Mill on the Floss (2015).
Content
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of George Eliot
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
Selected Variants
Explanatory Notes
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of George Eliot
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
Selected Variants
Explanatory Notes