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SILAS MARNER The Weaver of Raveloe
SILAS MARNER The Weaver of Raveloe | George Eliot
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The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues are given against Silas: a pocket knife, and the discovery in his own house of the bag formerly containing the money. There is the strong suggestion that Silas' best friend, William Dane, has framed him, since Silas had lent his pocket knife to William shortly before the crime was committed. Silas is proclaimed guilty. The woman Silas was to marry breaks their engagement and later marries William. With his life shattered and his heart broken, Silas leaves Lantern Yard and the city. Marner travels south to the Midlands and settles near the rural village of Raveloe, where he lives alone, with only minimal contact with the residents. He comes to adore the gold he earns and hoards from his weaving. The gold is stolen by Dunstan ("Dunsey") Cass, a dissolute younger son of Squire Cass, the town's leading landowner. Silas sinks into a deep gloom, despite the villagers' attempts to aid him. Dunsey disappears, but little is made of this not unusual behaviour, and no association is made between him and the theft. Godfrey Cass, Dunsey's elder brother, also harbours a secret. He is married to, but estranged from, Molly Farren, an opium-addicted woman of low birth living in another town. This secret prevents Godfrey from marrying Nancy Lammeter, a young woman of high social and moral standing. On a winter's night, Molly tries to make her way to Squire Cass's New Year's Eve party with her two-year-old girl to announce that she is Godfrey's wife and ruin him. On the way, she takes opium and lies down in the snow. The child wanders away and into Silas' house. Silas follows her tracks in the snow and discovers the woman dead. When he goes to the party for help, Godfrey heads to the scene, but resolves to tell no one that Molly was his wife. Molly's death conveniently puts an end to the marriage....
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The garden was fenced with stones on two sides, but in front there was an open fence, through which the flowers shone with answering gladness, as the four united people came within sight of them.
“O father,” said Eppie, what a pretty home ours is! I think nobody could be happier than we are.”
#SilasMarner #GeorgeEliot #lastline #closingline #book #books #Classics #Fiction #Literature #HistoricalFiction #19thCentury #Victorian #Novels #Classic ❣️❣️

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Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.”
#WomensHistoryMonth #MaryAnnEvans #GeorgeEliot ?

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cdreincarnate
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George Eliot is normally one of my favorite writers, but I didn‘t care for this one. It felt preachy and condescending. And it was missing the beautiful prose I‘ve come to expect from her writing.

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In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses— and even great ladies, clothed in silk and threadlace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak— there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
#SilasMarner #GeorgeEliot #Classics #Fiction #Literature 💕

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Dilara
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Silas Marner, coffee and the bit of homemade raspberry coulis that didn‘t fit in the serving bowl for breakfast. Coffee and raspberries go really well together!

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BookmarkTavern
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What‘s in a name? 🌹

1. Seanan McGuire, aka Mira Grant, aka A. Deborah Baker
2. I really actually kind of love this book.
3. If it‘s well known, and the author wants it known, like McGuire or King, sure. But authors who want to publish solely under a pseudonym should be given that privacy.

#SundayFunday Have a great day, and don‘t forget to tag me!

5feet.of.fury #1 would have been my answer, I love Seanan/Mira 3y
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Rachbb3
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This is such a beautiful book. Silas Marner is a weaver that is falsely accused of stealing and leaves his home to a new country. There he becomes a loner and a miser who has completely lost faith, until a two year old baby girl comes into his life restoring everything he once believed about humanity and himself.

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In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses— and even great ladies, clothed in silk and threadlace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak— there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
#SilasMarner #GeorgeEliot #Classics #Fiction #Literature 📚

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BookmarkTavern
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Time to dive into some classics!

1. 👆🏻 I adore this book so much! ❤️❤️
2. Wuthering Heights. I did not enjoy this one. 🤣
3. Something by Coulson Whitehead, I‘m sure. Underground Railroad or The Nickel Boys.

#sundayfunday Have an awesome day, and don‘t forget to tag me!

Chab256 Wuthering Heights...same! 4y
PurpleTulipGirl Overrated classic? Two words: Scarlet. Letter. 4y
BookmarkTavern @PurpleTulipGirl I was very unimpressed with The Scarlet Letter. 4y
Sace The Nickel Boys is very good. 4y
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BiblioLitten
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Drinking lychee juice 🥤
Reading Silas Marner 📚
Rereading aloud multiple times, and in multiple voices(I‘ll lose my mind)- Peppa Pig‘s Sleepover.

#quaranreads #currentread #classicschallenge2020

readordierachel 💕💕 5y
MicrobeMom Love it! Thanks for participating!!! 5y
Reviewsbylola I need to make Eliot one of my priorities. I‘ve never read her! 5y
BiblioLitten @Reviewsbylola She has a way with words. This one is short too(like Agnes Grey) so you can give it a try. 😊 5y
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Emjoy21
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“That drawing o‘ the lots is dark; but the child was sent to me; there‘s dealings with us—there‘s dealings.”

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Neymeyfeyhey
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Page 35/157😌

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Emilymdxn
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Another pic of a card explaining Van Gogh‘s connections with English novels!

Silas Marner is my fave book by George Eliot, I love it more than Middlemarch or the Mill on the Floss (tho I like all George Eliot in general). I‘m glad to see Van Gogh agreed

Caroline2 Oh Ive had this book on my tbr shelf for a while now, sounds like I need to move it up the pile! 👍🏻 6y
BiblioLitten I just finished reading this one and loved it.💙 5y
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Mrs.C
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Pickpick

A simple story about a weaver, Silas Marner, who has had misfortunes and exiled himself until a blessing comes his way.

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Mrs.C
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Another school reading! I‘ve officially signed up for two more English classes this summer, trying to get this English degree under my belt!

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BarbaraBB
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Mehso-so

When Silas Marner, a weaver, is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds, his life is shattered. He leaves for Raveloe, a rural community where he is unknown. Here he lives an isolated life, saving and cherishing the gold he earns by weaving as his only diversion. When his money is stolen Silas gets very depressed until a little girl walks into his house to stay.
#1001books 👇👇

BarbaraBB She feels like a gift from heaven.
The strange thing about this novel is that we learn a lot about live in and the people of Raveloe and their interactions with Silas, while he himself remains mainly a mystery and we never get to know him or his thoughts. An okay read for me, not more than that.
6y
Blaire I liked this one, but I loved middlemarch. Have you read it? Found it totally engrossing. 6y
BarbaraBB @Blaire I liked that one much more! 6y
Cathythoughts I did this one in school... I can‘t even remember it. 👍🏻 6y
BiblioLitten You are right, it should have been titled something else or at least portrayed SM more deeply. 5y
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In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses- and even great ladies, clothed in silk and threadlace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak- there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
#SilasMarner #GeorgeEliot #Classics #Fiction #YA 💚💚💚💚

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rockpools
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If I remember right, Silas Marner begins with the sad death of a young mother in the snow.

This is *that* book for me. I read it in school & hated the experience of reading it, but it was the one class book I thought I'd probably like if I read in real life. (Reading aloud around the class = pain & misery!) Tried and failed again last year. One day! Maybe.

#winterkills #winterwonderland

TrishB Another classic I haven‘t read! 6y
Cinfhen I tried again too!!! Bailed too 6y
rockpools @TrishB @Cinfhen You're both making me feel loads better! 6y
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andrew61
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Im trying to catch up on the challenges and have gone back to one of the highlights of my litsy classics challenge this year. When miserly silas driven away from society finds an angelic child Eppie on his hearth his love for her over the next twenty years is totally unconditional.

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Settings
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I like this book a bit too much.

Settings Silas Marner must be the most likable crotchety miser ever written. 6y
CSeydel No such thing! This is probably my favorite of all time. An underrated gem! 6y
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andrew61
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Silas marner is man who suffers a cruel wrong, and then he is ostracised in his community as a miserly eccentric loving his gold hoarf. After a theft an almost religious incident allows his redemption through an angelic orphan. I loved this book and its picture of an England moving from an agrarian to industrial society, the curious religious groups prevalent, and much more. My 1st George elliot and now i hope to move on to middlemarch.
#LitsyAtoZ

Leftcoastzen Like that well loved Penguin! 6y
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andrew61
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I like a margin note in a second hand book especially when it sheds some light on a tricky literary point, im not saying that this is blooming obvious but it has made me smile
"silas finds money gone- fear, panic,pity, desolation"
Things are generally not going well for silas marner
#LitsyClassics

readordierachel That's a good one! I like finding those too...as long as there aren't too many. 6y
Cathythoughts Silas Marner ! My secondary school exam book ..... 😱 6y
andrew61 @Cathythoughts i hope it's not your copy 😂 6y
Cathythoughts Oh no ! No worries, I don‘t think I read it properly at all. ... 😂.. but that would be a good laugh ... 6y
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llwheeler
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I had no idea the word "drab" was a literal colour at first, and the figurative sense followed. Silas Marner is 1861 so this usage is just before the figurative sense.

Love learning new words, or new (old) meanings of words! And any excuse to look stuff up on etymonline.com ?
#wordoftheday

Andrea4 Tres cool 6y
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I don't know much about current typesetting best practices but I'm betting no one would set a book like this anymore. Hello, wall of text! Tiiiny indents and margins. This edition pub'd 1960 I think. Also betting most editors would break up page-long paragraphs now too haha

Really enjoying this so far! my first time reading Eliot.

aeeklund Which edition/publisher is this? 6y
llwheeler @aeeklund Signet Classics. The only date I can find in it is the afterword is copyrighted 1960. Other than that it just says sixth printing. The cover is in my post one earlier than this post 6y
Dolly I‘m not fond of that either. Seems it would be a struggle keeping inner type visible and not conducive to a books long life. Looks like yours survived though. 6y
llwheeler @Dolly This was a used booksale find, and it is in pretty good condition... maybe the previous owner didn't read it 😂 or it's ok cause it's quite a slim book so less strain on the spine? I dunno, but i don't mind it in this case, so win ☺. I know what you mean about struggle to keep inner type visible, that's so frustrating 6y
emilyhaldi Yikes 🧐 6y
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llwheeler
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Iced green tea latte and some reading before errands makes for a great start to the day. Hope everyone is having/had/will have a great Saturday morning ❤

(Also... Thanks for the super creepy cover art, Signet Classics 😂)

emilyhaldi Ha, i love a good creepy cover!! 6y
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As @Cinfhen didn't know George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans) was a pen name, & also when my lecturer asked my class at Uni whether Eliot was male or female most people said male, I thought I would use HER for #oneofus as it's likely that some other Littens may not know this fact. Shown above are some of the reasons she may have chosen to use a pen name. #abbainaugust

@Mdargusch @emilyhaldi @Reviewsbylola @Meredith3

Cinfhen Super clever choice!!! 🙌🏻💡💡💡💡 6y
emilyhaldi Perfect for this prompt..... I had no idea! 👩🏻 6y
Daisey I knew she used a pen name but none of the details, so thanks for sharing! 6y
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Mdargusch I‘m not sure I knew this! 🤷🏼‍♀️ 6y
Reviewsbylola I knew but probably only because I was an English major. I‘ve yet to read any of her books though. 😬 6y
mrsh62010 Silas Marner is so good. I did some research about her after reading that book. I was inspired to read that book after learning an old Steve Martin movie "A Simple Twist of Fate" was based on it. 6y
Meredith3 Good info! Thanks! 6y
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LibrarianRyan
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#10booksthatchangedme Day 8

Absolutely amazing. Both the story and the story of the author. I'm surprised it hasn't been made into more movies (there is a Steve Martin movie but they changed the title). It's one of those classics with an ugly cover but amazing story b

Jinjer My 91-yo mother got in trouble in school for “reading ahead” when the class was assigned this book. She was too into it to stop where she was supposed to.😆 6y
LibrarianRyan @Jinjer aaahhhhhh 6y
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I recommend it to all🖤
A beautiful classical book.
Quite enjoyable.
Gives u a glimpse of the lives of the ordinary people .

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Sometimes George Eliot reaches Jane Austen levels of snark. ?
"She actually said 'mate' for 'meat,' ''appen' for 'perhaps,' and 'oss' for 'horse,' which, to young ladies living in good Lytherly society, who habitually said 'orse, even in domestic privacy, and only said 'appen on the right occasions, was necessarily shocking."

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CSeydel
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#LitsyLoveDay

Congratulations @LazyDays on your milestone!

So many favorite books, I don‘t know how to choose. Two of my all time favorites are A Christmas Carol and Silas Marner.

Good luck everybody!

LazyDays Thank you for entering and good luck! Wow what a great choice I loved The Christmas Carol! 7y
LazyDays 😊💓 7y
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CSeydel
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#7favesin7days

Silas Marner!

2/7

LibrarianRyan Soooo agree 7y
CSeydel @LibrarianRyan it‘s one of the very few books I can reread again and again. 7y
CSeydel And yet I don‘t own it ... hence Ben Kingsley 🤷🏻‍♀️ 7y
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OrangeMooseReads
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These are my #coololdbooks ...
Better Homes was given to my Grandmother when she and my grandfather got married in 1951. I rescued it from the burn pile.
Silas Marner was my great grandfather‘s school book (gpa‘s dad)
The Shakespeare which is Merchant of Venice was my great Grandmother‘s school book (gma‘s mom)
Lamplighters I bought in an antique store for a few dollars.

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Dulcinella
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I really admire George Elliot. Living 2 centuries ago, she still feels remarkably modern. I particularly enjoyed the humour, the underlying criticism on religion, the class differences, the hypocrisy of certain groups. At the same time there is also a clear endearment towards almost every characters.The most beautiful part was the growing up of Eppie. The way the old Silas falls in love with this child is written with so much warmth! 4 stars

minkyb Nice review! 7y
Dulcinella Thank you @minkyb 😘 7y
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smccallum
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Book haul from a lovely used bookshop in Camden Market today!

TheKidUpstairs Nice haul! I love that No Country cover (and I love Camden Market!) 7y
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BookmarkTavern
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Years out from my English degree, and this is still one of my favorite books. #greed #readingresolutions @Jess7

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jhod
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Thanks @jenniferw88 ! I'd like the Eliot or Hemingway to help me in my New Year's resolution to read more classics!
#clearmyshelvesgiveaway

99problemsbutabookaint1 @jenniferw88 You are so awesome thank you Id love to read The Lie Tree! 7y
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In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and threadlace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak-there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race. #SilasMarner #GeorgeEliot #firstline #openingline #booklove