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Informationen zum Autor Terence Cave is Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in French at St John's College. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. His previous publications include Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (Oxford! 1988! 1990)! a translation of The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette for World's Classics (1992)! and an edition of Daniel Deronda (1995). Klappentext Falsely accused! cut off from his past! Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence! endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile! Godfrey Cass! son of the squire! contracts a secret marriage. While the village celebrates Christmas and New Year! two apparently inexplicable events occur. Silas loses his gold and finds a child on his hearth. The imaginative control George Eliot displays as her narrative gradually reveals causes and connectionshas rarely been surpassed. This edition! which is based on the carefully corrected text George Eliot prepared a few months after the first edition! is accompanied by an introduction which illuminates the intellectual context of what has often been presented as a nostalgic! sentimental tale. Zusammenfassung In this heartwarming classic! a gentle linen weaver named Silas Marner is wrongly accused of theft actually committed by his best friend. Silas exiles himself to a rustic village! where he finds spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love of an abandoned child. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.
