Silas Marner -- George Eliot

Silas Marner, a weaver in early nineteenth-century England, secludes himself to guard his gold and avoid relationships. The gold is one day stolen and replaced with a golden-haired child.<br><br><b>Author:</b> George Eliot<br><b>Publisher:</b> Bantam Classics<br><b>Published:</b> 09/01/1981<br><b>Pages:</b> 192<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.22lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.80h x 4.10w x 0.50d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780553212297<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 9.7<br><b>Point Value:</b> 14<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>718 / Silas Marner<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.F. Strauss's <i>The Life of Jesus Critically Examined</i> (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism. After her father's death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the <i>Westminster Review</i>, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another