Silas Marner View By George Eliot
| Title | : | Silas Marner |
| Author | : | George Eliot |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 265 pages |
| ISBN | : | 014043030X |
A story of old fashioned village life wrote George Eliot of Silas Marner, whose Wordsworthian theme is the remedial influence of pure, natural human relations.Long favourite among her novels and often regarded as a mere moral faery tale , it contains, along with its genial humour and its mellow portraiture, many complex ironies and a great deal of pointed social criti A story of old fashioned village life wrote George Eliot of Silas Marner, whose Wordsworthian theme is the remedial influence of pure, natural human relations.Long favourite among her novels and often regarded as a mere moral faery tale , it contains, along with its genial humour and its mellow portraiture, many complex ironies and a great deal of pointed social criticism Marner s spiritual death and his resurrection through the child Eppie and the neighbourliness of the village community have, as Mrs Leavis points out, a multiple typicality through his case are examined the dire effects of the Industrial Revolution and the rich human possibilities of a way of life that, even in George Eliot s lifetime, was passing away
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In 1819, novelist George Eliot nee Mary Ann Evans , was born at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager Mary Ann, the youngest child and a favorite of her father s, received a good education for a young woman of her day Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent Her first published work was a religious poe In 1819, novelist George Eliot nee Mary Ann Evans , was born at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager Mary Ann, the youngest child and a favorite of her father s, received a good education for a young woman of her day Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent Her first published work was a religious poem Through a family friend, she was exposed to Charles Hennell s An Inquiry into the Origins of Christianity Unable to believe, she conscientiously gave up religion and stopped attending church Her father shunned her, sending the broken hearted young dependent to live with a sister until she promised to reexamine her feelings Her intellectual views did not, however, change She translated David Strauss Das Leben Jesu, a monumental task, without signing her name to the 1846 work After her father s death in 1849, Mary Ann traveled, then accepted an unpaid position with The Westminster Review Despite a heavy workload, she translated Ludwig Feuerbach s The Essence of Christianity, the only book ever published under her real name That year, the shy, respectable writer scandalized British society by sending notices to friends announcing she had entered a free union with George Henry Lewes, editor of The Leader, who was unable to divorce his first wife They lived harmoniously together for the next 24 years, but suffered social ostracism and financial hardship She became salaried and began writing essays and reviews for The Westminster Review Renaming herself Marian in private life and adopting the nom de plume George Eliot, she began her impressive fiction career, including Adam Bede 1859 , The Mill on the Floss 1860 , Silas Marner 1861 , Romola 1863 , and Middlemarch 1871 Themes included her humanist vision and strong heroines Her poem, O May I Join the Choir Invisible expressed her views about non supernatural immortality O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence D 1880.Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.More 
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A story of old fashioned village life wrote George Eliot of Silas Marner, whose Wordsworthian theme is the remedial influence of pure, natural human r
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