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The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot • "God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!" • Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of 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 and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.' Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and living a lonely life as a recluse. It is only when his money is stolen and a small orphan girl, Eppie appears in his life that Silas's fortunes begin to change and he truly begins to learn what it means to regain his faith in life

Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of Raveloe, Silas Marner's sole pleasure is to count his growing hoard of gold. When it is stolen, his life ceases to have meaning - until Eppie wanders into the weaver's cottage one snowy New Year's Eve and falls asleep on his hearth. Eppie is two years old • Silas rears the little girl with friendly help from the villagers and she loves him as a father. Then, after sixteen years of contentment, Eppie's true background comes to light

Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives alone in the village of Raveloe, hoarding the precious wealth he earns. But when Silas’s beloved gold is stolen, and an orphaned girl finds her way into his home, he is given the opportunity to transform his selfish and embittered life • George Eliot’s favourite novel – rich in symbolism, humour and social criticism – Silas Marner is one of the great nineteenth-century portrayals of rural life

Несмотря на то, что "Сайлас Марнер" - самый короткий из романов Джордж Элиот, он является одним из ее самых почитаемых произведений. В нем рассказывается печальная история несправедливо изгнанного Сайласа Марнера - ткача ручного ткацкого станка из Равелоу в сельскохозяйственном центре Англии - и о том, как он возвращается к жизни невероятным образом благодаря девочке-сироте Эппи • "Сайлас Марнер" - нежная и трогательная повесть о грехе и покаянии, действие которой разворачивается в исчезнувшем сельском мире и удерживает внимание читателя до последней страницы, когда испытываются узы привязанности Эппи к Сайласу • Книга на английском языке • Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and 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 - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie

When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his back upon the world. But an extraordinary sequence of events, including the appearance of a tiny child in his cottage, melts Silas’s heart and transforms his life. George Eliot’s tender pastoral is at once a realistic story of rural life and a symbolic drama of sin and repentance. Written in her simplest style, it paints a vivid picture of a rural life long since vanished

"Сайлас Марнер" - классическая повесть Джорджа Элиота об аутсайдере. Единственное удовольствие Сайласа Марнера, ткача, который приезжает жить и работать в одиночестве в деревню Равелоу в Мидлендсе, - подсчитывать свои растущие запасы золота. Когда его крадут, его жизнь теряет смысл - до тех пор, пока Эппи не забредает в коттедж ткача в снежную новогоднюю ночь и не засыпает у его очага. Эппи два года • Сайлас воспитывает маленькую девочку с дружеской помощью жителей деревни, и она любит его как отца. Затем, после шестнадцати лет довольства, всплывает истинное прошлое Эппи • Книга на английском языке • Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of Raveloe, Silas Marner's sole pleasure is to count his growing hoard of gold

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith • Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated existence near the country village of Raveloe, hoarding his gold. One night his fortune is stolen and Silas loses everything he holds dear. But then the golden-haired child Eppie appears in his home, and Silas begins to reform bonds of faith and human connectedness that he once renounced forever

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud • Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and living a lonely life as a recluse • It is only when his money is stolen and a small orphan girl, Eppie appears in his life that Silas's fortunes begin to change and he truly begins to learn what it means to regain his faith in life

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