Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe

Informationen zum Autor Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Klappentext A reissue of the 1861 first edition of George Eliot's novel about a miser's redemption through adopting a child. Zusammenfassung Although her previous work tends toward tragedy and a focus on fallen women, George Eliot (1819–80) reached a turning point in her career with Silas Marner (1861). This uplifting novel charts the life of the cataleptic outcast Silas as he finds meaning and tranquillity in raising an adopted daughter. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Chapters 1-15; Part II: Chapters 16-Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: George Eliot
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9781108060417
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06041-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form