Description

Category:LiteratureLiterary FictionLiterary Fiction-Lfi
Publisher: Readings | ISBN: 9786275100263 | Pages: 176

Set in the early 19th century, Silas Marner is the story of a small-town weaver. A member of a Calvinist congregation in a town of northern England, Silas Marner is arraigned for stealing the congregation s funds. Whereas it is strongly suggested that his best friend William Danes has stolen the funds and framed him. Not only does Marner eventually loses his betrothed to William Danes, he is also forced to leave the town for a new place, heartbroken and alone. Apparently a simple tale of a poor weaver, the novel is renowned for its real- istic depictions. It explores the issues of poverty, religion, industrialisation and communal living through the life of its protagonist.

About the Author

Mary Anne Evans, more famously known by her pen name George Eliot, was a nineteenth-century English novelist, journalist, translator and poet. She was born on vember 22, 1819, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Eliot was deeply influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach and Auguste Comte after the loss of her Christian faith. She had a cynical view of life and her work represented the cases of social outsiders. She wrote on griminess and impoverishment of rural life and small-town oppression. She was one of the early writers to psychologically analyse her characters in modern fiction. Her notable works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). She died on December 22, 1880, in London.