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From Library Journal
This 19th-century classic, read by Andrew Sachs, is a tale of
betrayal, gold, and love, encased in the elegant symmetrical
structure so popular in traditional English fiction, featuring
Marner, the weaver, who is framed for theft by his best friend and
becomes a recluse, focusing his strong affections only on the store
of golden coins he receives in payment for his work. As usual,
Chivers has produced an excellent audio presentation of a literary
masterpiece. Alas, in this day and age fewer and fewer readers not
enrolled in literature classes actually read the works of what are
frequently referred to as "dead white males" even if, as in this
case, they were actually written by a woman. For this reason, this
title is recommended for all academic but only larger public
libraries.
-I. Pour-El, Iowa State Univ., Ames
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
内容简介
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of
George Eliot's greatest creations, and his presence casts a
strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and
small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds
him. When Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his
community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the
village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of
suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the
theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child
in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized
rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marner's
redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliot's
most beloved and widely read work.