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  • Silas Marner

  • Penguin Classics
  • By: George Eliot
  • Narrated by: Jan Francis
  • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Jan Francis, star of Just Good Friends. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by David Carroll.

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.
©1861 George Eliot (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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wonderful tale of morality and justice

really enjoyable tale of injustice and outcome. Eliot's paints a wonderful picture of the social divide and landscape of the time. very enjoyable.

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