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	Powell's Books - Silas Marner by George Eliot
		Silas hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child.
		The story of Silas Marner's redemption and restoration, which is interwoven with the lives of Eppie, Dolly Winthrop, Dunstan and Godfrey, is part beautifully realized portraiture of rural England and part fairy tale.
		Silas Marner has long been the most beloved and widely read book by George Eliot, the pen name for the 19th century English woman writer Marian Evans.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=142331073x (307 words)

	Silas Marner
		Eppie's final choice to stay with Silas and marry someone of her own class is the final, ironical statement of the greater morality of the working class and is a simultaneous rejection of the bourgeous passion to rise socially.
		Through Eppie, Silas is reconnected to the community because of the townspeople's committment to help him raise her "rightly." The standard of the countryside is closely founded on a communal mentality peculiar to a rural way of life where cooperation, rather than competition, is fostered.
		Silas Marner focuses on 19th century England as a time of transition: political power moved from a dominant landowner class to a dominant bourgeous class, agrarian economies were replaced by urban industrialization, and Christianity became increasingly diluted and secular.
	www.cyberpat.com /shirlsite/essays/silas.html (1836 words)

	Silas Marner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) which was first published in 1861.
		Set in the early years of the 19th century, Silas Marner was a weaver and had been since a young man. While living in this industrial town, he was also a highly thought of member of a little Dissenting church.
		Silas was engaged to be married to a female member of the church and thought his future happiness assured.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silas_Marner (841 words)

	JiffyNotes: Silas Marner: Summary: Historical Context
		Silas Marner was published in 1861, at a kind of mid-point in Eliot’s career.
		And Marner is similar in style to her earlier novels like Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss in that they all partake of a kind of “rustic realism” that Eliot had perfected.
		Although Marner seems to be a more or less simple fable in the rustic realist tradition, there are moments in the novel when we see larger issues of mid-Victorian culture bleeding through.
	www.jiffynotes.com /SilasMarner/HistoricalContext.html (570 words)

	Silas Marner Book Notes Summary by George Eliot: Part 1, Chapter 1
		Silas Marner, a linen-weaver, is distrusted and disliked by the people of Raveloe, the village where Silas now resides.
		Silas was engaged to a woman named Sarah; the delay to their marriage was caused by low funds.
		Silas, deeply hurt by his friend's accusation, was interrogated and ostracized when William later accused him of stealing money from the senior deacon of the church and killing the ill deacon by not being by his side on his deathbed.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/sm/PART1.htm (789 words)

	George Eliot - Silas Marner - complete book for free! - chapter 1
		Silas was evidently a brother selected for a peculiar discipline; and though the effort to interpret this discipline was discouraged by the absence, on his part, of any spiritual vision during his outward trance, yet it was believed by himself and others that its effect was seen in an accession of light and fervour.
		The expression of trusting simplicity in Marner's face, heightened by that absence of special observation, that defenceless, deer-like gaze which belongs to large prominent eyes, was strongly contrasted by the self-complacent suppression of inward triumph that lurked in the narrow slanting eyes and compressed lips of William Dane.
		Silas knelt with his brethren, relying on his own innocence being certified by immediate divine interference, but feeling that there was sorrow and mourning behind for him even then--that his trust in man had been cruelly bruised.
	www.19thnovels.com /silasmarner.php (2714 words)

	Silas Marner Summary
		Silas Marner, bent at his loom, was interrupted by some curious boys peering through his cabin window.
		Silas was now a very old man; and though he was happy, he still clung to the past, searching for the meaning of his life.
		Silas Marner was written out of a floodgate of feelings she had acquired from her unhappy childhood.
	www.awerty.com /silas2.html (1668 words)

	Amazon.de: Silas Marner: English Books: George Eliot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Silas lays claim to the golden-haired child, and Godfrey is relieved to be free from Molly and paternity.
		In his home-town, Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous murder, forcing the poor weaver to move to Raveloe; there, his life-savings are stolen by a greedy aristocrat.
		Silas finds her mother dead in the snow, but still he "had formed no conjectures of ordinary natural means by whihc [the arrival of the girl] could hav ebeen brought about" (115) The little girl, Eppie, transfroms Silas' reclusive life into one full of love and new happiness.
	www.amazon.de /Silas-Marner-George-Eliot/dp/141420972X (2440 words)

	Silas Marner (Bantam Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		That very same night Silas Marners house is radiated by the return of the lost gold and silver pieces in a more divine and colourful form:"a tamps child".
		Silas is bold enough to accept her as his daughter and despite being a bachelor,he undertakes for the development of the girl-child he baptises as Eppie.
		"Silas Marner" is not a superb classic only for the easy flow of its plot but also for the easy fairy-tale gratifications that it manages to combine with massive social and personal insights.
	www.literaturehistoryhub.com /Silas_Marner_Bantam_Classics_055321229X.html (1464 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Silas Marner
		Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe, published in 1861, is unique among George Eliot’s writings for its brevity and its apparent allegorical clarity.
		Marner, as Eliot writes in her journal, “thrust itself between me and the other book I was meditating.” That “other book” eventually became Romola (1863), a book about Renaissance Italy that, superficially at least, could hardly differ more from Silas Marner.
		Even so, one should not confuse the naïveté of the characters in Silas Marner with the sophistication and elegance of the book itself, which enjoys a thematic and symbolic density equal to that of her other works.
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	Book Review: Silas Marner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Silas Marner is a lonely miser living in rural 1800's England.
		Silas Marner is a simple moral fable, with complexities added.
		I have to disagree with a review Silas Marner on this site which describes the book as a "simple fable with a few complexities added." The author of this review claims Elliot forces her opinion on the reader and rambles on about issues unrelated to the plot.
	www.jandysbooks.com /genfic/silsmrnr.html (742 words)

	Silas Marner Audio Book (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Falsely accused of theft and cast out by the religious community of which he was a member, Silas Marner leaves his home and settles in Raveloe, where he leads a solitary existence as a weaver....
		Silas Marner was authored by George Eliot and is narrated by N/A.
		Silas Marner is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/silas-marner.php (431 words)

	Silas Marner
		Silas Marner is an excellent selection for classroom study in the high school.
		She comforts Silas when his gold is taken, helps him raise Eppie, and guides him in becoming part of village life.
		Silas' story began in Chapter I, and the story of the Cass brothers was introduced in Chapter III.
	www.teachervision.com /lesson-plans/lesson-4096.html (4865 words)

	WannaLearn: Silas Marner
		With the publication of SILAS MARNER in 1861, George Eliot countered the rise of what she saw as the patently false view of life that the conventional pastoral engendered.
		"Silas Marner" is a brief and tightly cultural story invoking a symmetrical plot and adroit symboism to depict the tale of a linen-weaver who loses everything in his life only to discover them in a more divine,vibrant and concord dimension.
		For fifteen years before moving to the town of Raveloe, Silas Marner had lived a satisfying and happy existence in a close-knit community known as Lantern Hill.
	www.wannalearn.com /Classic_Literature/Adults/055321229X.shtml (358 words)

	Chapter Chapter 7 of Silas Marner by George Eliot
		Macey attributed to them; for the pale, thin figure of Silas Marner was suddenly seen standing in the warm light, uttering no word, but looking round at the company with his strange unearthly eyes.
		The landlord, under the habitual sense that he was bound to keep his house open to all company, and confident in the protection of his unbroken neutrality, at last took on himself the task of adjuring the ghost.
		The landlord forced Marner to take off his coat, and then to sit down on a chair aloof from every one else, in the centre of the circle and in the direct rays of the fire.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/21/2392/27404/1.html (573 words)

	Silas Marner Summary
		Silas Marner is loner and a simple man, for him just being left alone is happiness enough.
		So beautiful is she to Silas that he falls in love with her immediately and refuses to ever part from her..
		Silas thinks that his gold has returned to him in the form of the child.
	www.shvoong.com /books/73868-silas-marner (416 words)

	Silas Marner - TeacherVision.com
		Silas Marner is an excellent selection for classroom study in the high school.
		She comforts Silas when his gold is taken, helps him raise Eppie, and guides him in becoming part of village life.
		• Silas regains consciousness, discovers the child, and shortly thereafter follows her tracks in the snow to her mother's body.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /reading/resource/4096.html (1816 words)

	Silas Marner Questions
		T/F Silas Marner was a linen weaver near the village of Raveloe.
		T/F Silas was away from his house during the robbery of his money because he was doing an errand that he didn't want to do the next morning.
		T/F Justice Malam hinted to Godfrey's uncle, Dr. Kimble, that the coincidence of Dunstan's disappearance on the same day of Silas Marner's robbery was a strong rumor at the Rainbow inn, to be investigated by the deputy.
	www.bell.k12.ca.us /fac_staf/p-z/weightmanron/free/silasques.html (2690 words)

	Silas Marner Review -- Book-Reviews.info
		Silas is initially seen as a sympathetic character who suffers from a false accusation of theft in his small rural village.
		Silas Marner is a poor,hapless linen-weaver who leaves his own village after being framed in a robbery case by his friend William Dane who goes on to marry his lover Sarah.
		"Silas Marner" is virtually a ballad inprose and so inevitably always soaked in a gentle reassurance of poetic justice.
	www.book-reviews.info /Classics_Book_Reviews/055321229X.shtml (1459 words)

	Silas Marner
		Silas was evidently a brother selected for a peculiar discipline; and though the effort to interpret this discipline was discouraged by the absence, on his part, of any spiritual vision during his outward trance, yet it was believed by himself and others that its effect was seen in an accession of light and fervour.
		Silas now found himself and his cottage suddenly beset by mothers who wanted him to charm away the whooping-cough, or bring back the milk, and by men who wanted stuff against the rheumatics or the knots in the hands; and, to secure themselves against a refusal, the applicants brought silver in their palms.
		Marner's cottage had no thatch; and Dunstan's first act, after a train of thought made rapid by the stimulus of cupidity, was to go up to the bed; but while he did so, his eyes travelled eagerly over the floor, where the bricks, distinct in the fire-light, were discernible under the sprinkling of sand.
	www.arthursclassicnovels.com /arthurs/eliot/smarn10.xml (18531 words)

	George Eliot: A Selected Bibliography
		George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner: A Casebook.
		"Silas Marner and the Balance of Male and Female." Victorians Institute Journal 16 (1988): 65-73.
		"The Weaver of Raveloe: Metaphor as Narrative Persuasion in Silas Marner." Studies in the Novel 15, 1 (Spring, 1993): 35-43.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/eliot/bibliography.html (422 words)

	The Silas Marner Miracle
		Silas Marner, the lonely miser, returns to his shack one day to find that his precious gold has been stolen from under the hearth of his home.
		Silas is nearsighted and cannot see the woman struggling toward his door with a child.
		Silas Marner's angel is the little child that needs his love and gives him a new life.
	www.meridianmagazine.com /bestbooks/010425marner2.html (1038 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Silas Marner [1985]: Video: Ben Kingsley,Jenny Agutter,Patrick Ryecart,Freddie Jones,Jonathan Coy,Patsy ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Silas Marner, a member of a strict religious community, is wrongly accused of theft and has no choice but to move to a faraway village.
		Marner's life changes dramatically one Christmas season, when his gold is stolen and a mysterious woman dies in the woods outside his cottage.
		Silas Marner is not particularly complex--it's certainly a more modest undertaking than Eliot's most famous novel, Middlemarch--but this sentimental Victorian tale, filled with historical detail, potential tragedy, heartless villains and the redeeming power of childhood, makes for a very satisfying film.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Silas-Marner-Ben-Kingsley/dp/B00004CJZL (490 words)

	English-Silas Marner
		At the start of the novel, Silas Marner is a valuable member of the community in a village called Lantern Yard.
		Silas Marner is framed by his best friend William Dane and consequently falsely accused of the theft of Church money.
		Silas is forced to move to the village of Raveloe where he lives a sad, lonely life, isolated from the community.
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	www.myspace.com/silasmarnerkills
		Silas Marner a metal/deathcore band from Atlanta, GA, started owning the stage in April 2005 and has permantly formed a metal claw out of everyones hand since.
		Silas Marner is a Christian band that simply believes in standing up for what they believe.
		Silas Marner is not here to shove the Bible down peoples throat, but to enlighten people on a better way of life and faith.
	www.myspace.com /silasmarnerkills (1159 words)

	Silas Marner - George Eliot - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		After he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver Silas Marner becomes a miser and a recluse.
		"Silas Marner" is not her greatest work, but does make an interesting place to start - its a lot shorter and more straightforward than much of her other writing.
		Silas is an outsider, his past unknown to the local people, but a dark cloud seems to hang over him.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/silas-marner-george-eliot (337 words)

	bound by gravity: Book Review: Silas Marner
		There are two main plot arcs in Silas Marner, although both weave together to explain the circumstances of Marner's roller-coaster life.
		Marner starts the story as a youth full of vigour and promise, but before the first chapter has drawn to a close he has been wrongly convicted of a crime that he did not commit, framed by his best friend.
		Silas Marner is very character-development oriented story, and will probably not appeal to readers who prefer a book that tells an engaging tale.
	www.boundbygravity.com /archives/2006/09/book_review_silas_marner.php (999 words)

	Amazon.com: Silas Marner (Bantam Classics): Books: George Eliot
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		Today, she is known primarily as the bane of school kids who, having SILAS MARNER thrust down their throats, learn to despise the written word.
	www.amazon.com /Silas-Marner-Bantam-Classics-George/dp/055321229X (1812 words)

	George Eliot
		Silas Marner, a linen-weaver, has accumulated a goodly sum of gold.
		Marner takes care of an orphaned little girl, Eppie and she becomes for him more precious than the lost property.
		SILAS MARNER, 1961 - Kankuri ja hänen aarteensa -
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	Silas Marner - CHAPTER VII (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Macey attributed to them; for the pale thin figure of Silas Marner was suddenly seen standing in the warm light, uttering no word, but looking round at the company with his strange unearthly eyes.
		The landlord, under the habitual sense that he was bound to keep his house open to all company, and confident in the protection of his unbroken neutrality, at last took on himself the task of adjuring the ghost.
		The landlord forced Marner to take off his coat, and then to sit down on a chair aloof from every one else, in the centre of the circle and in the direct rays of the fire.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/SilasMarner/chap7.html (1590 words)

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