{"product_id":"silas-marner-legend-classics-9781915054883","title":"Silas Marner (Legend Classics)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber. Silas loses his sweetheart, reputation, and as a result, has to move out of the town. He dedicates the next fifteen years of his life to earning money. Despite developing an unhealthy obsession, he is still the same just and honest person albeit rather stingy by this time as monetary enrichment became the sole purpose of his being. But when injustice strikes again, Silas is about to change his perception of life forever. What he first considers to be the ultimate disaster of his existence, turns into the thing that gives a new meaning to his life. This moral tale will set things in the right place presenting a picture of justice and love that rise above ignorance and greed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is regarded as a pastoral novel and a moral tale with fairytale elements. A notable feature is Eliot's representation of the effects of industrialisation. Indeed, upon Silas's return to his home town in his old age, he can barely recognise the town where new buildings and factories have been erected. The author deploys her signature technique of setting the novel in a more distant past, which gives her the advantage of scope and hindsight. Published a year before Hugo's world-famous \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSilas Marner\u003c\/i\u003e tackles many similar tropes as effectively and authentically but in a more condensed form - in particular, finding the meaning in life when there seems to be nothing left to hold on to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLegend Classics\u003c\/i\u003e series: \u003cbr\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days\u003cbr\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003cbr\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003cbr\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003cbr\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003eThe Railway Children\u003cbr\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u003cbr\u003eFrankenstein\u003cbr\u003eWuthering Heights\u003cbr\u003eThree Men in a Boat\u003cbr\u003eThe Time Machine\u003cbr\u003eLittle Women\u003cbr\u003eAnne of Green Gables\u003cbr\u003eThe Jungle Book\u003cbr\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories\u003cbr\u003eDracula\u003cbr\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003cbr\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003cbr\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Carol\u003cbr\u003eStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003cbr\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003cbr\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003cbr\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003cbr\u003eOliver Twist\u003cbr\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003cbr\u003eTreasure Island\u003cbr\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003cbr\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003cbr\u003eEmma\u003cbr\u003eThe Trial\u003cbr\u003eA Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eGrimm Fairy Tales\u003cbr\u003eThe Awakening\u003cbr\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003cbr\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003cbr\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003cbr\u003eSilas Marner\u003cbr\u003eHard Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e (1819-80) is the pseudonym of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans. She is primarily known for her realist mode of writing through which she addresses a large spectrum of themes and issues from social mobility and industrialization to moral choices and cultural identity. The author also received a significant amount of ill fame for going against Victorian conventions as she, for instance, started cohabiting with a married man, Henry Lewes - a relationship that at some point became a ménage-à-trois. She later, however, was admired by feminist authors and even those who largely rejected Victorian writing, such as Virginia Woolf. Eliot was mostly self-taught having left formal education at the age of sixteen. Among her other widely read works are\u003ci\u003e Adam Bede \u003c\/i\u003e(1859), \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e (1871-72) and a behemoth novel Daniel Deronda (1876).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Legends Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487171547410,"sku":"9781915054883","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_edb29726-7c63-485f-a913-ff970916fef4.jpg?v=1754896551","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/silas-marner-legend-classics-9781915054883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}