Introduction & Notes by RT Jones Honorary Fellow of the University of York Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels Silas Marner is one of her most admired & loved works It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner
- a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England
- & how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie Silas Marner is a tender & moving tale of sin & repentance set in a vanished rural world & holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test

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George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood Silas Marner is edited with an introduction & notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics Wrongly accused of theft & exiled from a religious community many years before the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe living only for work & his precious hoard of money But when his money is stolen & an orphaned child finds her way into his house Silas is given the chance to transform his life His fate & that of Eppie the little girl he adopts is entwined with Godfrey Cass son of the village Squire who like Silas is trapped by his past Silas Marner George Eliot's favourite of her novels combines humour rich symbolism & pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life This text uses the Cabinet edition revised by George Eliot in 1878 David Carroll's introduction is complemented by the original Penguin Classics edition introduction by QD Leavis Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator & later editor of the Westminster Review In 1857 she published Scenes of Clerical Life the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of ' George Eliot' including The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch & Daniel Deronda If you enjoyed Silas Marner you might like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter also available in Penguin Classics'I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple rounded consummate aspect which marks a classical work' Henry James ...

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With an introduction by Martin Scorsese director of the film starring Andrew Garfield & Adam Driver Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees staring in front of me & I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth in a place which you do not know & which your whole lives through you will never visit It is 1640 & Father Sebastian Rodrigues an idealistic Jesuit priest sets sale for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Christians there He is also desperate to discover the truth about his former mentor rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture Rodrigues cannot believe the stories about a man he so revered but as his journey takes him deeper into Japan & then into the hands of those who would crush his faith he finds himself forced to make an impossible choice whether to abandon his flock or his God The recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed work & has been called one of the twentieth century's finest novels As empathetic as it is powerful it is an astonishing exploration of faith & suffering & an award-winning classic ' One of the finest historical novels written by anyone anywhere flawless' David Mitchell'A masterpiece There can be no higher praise' Daily Telegraph ...

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