1819-1880

George Eliot's third novel has been reissued in the first edition of 1861. The story of cataleptic, miserly weaver, Silas Marner, is an unhappy one at the beginning of the novel. Cast out of his Calvinist community, he is left alone to accumulate a useless fortune through his loom during the new Industrial Age. But when his money is stolen and he adopts a child, his life becomes unrecognizable. Eliot's previous two novels dealt with the tragedy and the injustices faced by fallen women. And this novel continues to raise her characteristic questions about social inequalities, the effects of extreme religion, and the worth of human experience.

Spine title: Middlemarch. A collection of critical essays on Eliot's "Middlemarch" arranged in chronological order of publication.

Presents summaries and commentaries, background on the author, essay topics, review questions, and other study tools for "Silas Marner" by George Eliot.

A biography of nineteenth century writer George Eliot and her career as a novelist whose work reflects her struggle to conserve the past while changing the limitations imposed on women in that age.

Presents the complete text of George Eliot's classic novel and includes a profile of Eliot's life and critical essays from a number of noted authors on his work.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the nineteenth-century novel "Silas Marner," and its author, George Eliot.

Includes the life of the author, list of characters, brief synopsis, critical commentaries, character analyses, critical esays, essay and research topics.