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George Eliot Silas Marner

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Silas Marner is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. In Silas Marner, Eliot combines symbolism with a historically precise setting to create a tale of love and hope. On one level, the book has a strong moral tract: the bad character, Dunstan Cass, gets his just deserts, while the pitiable character, Silas Marner, is ultimately richly rewarded, and his miserliness corrected. The novel explores the issues of redemptive love, the notion of community, the role of religion, the status of the gentry and family, and impacts of industrialisation. While religion and religious devotion play a strong part in this text, Eliot concerns herself with matters of ethics and interdependence of faith and community. [mehr]

Stichwörter: silas marner, george eliot, miser, morality, religion, historical fiction, classic literature, romance novel, satire

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J. S. Lefanu Uncle Silas

A Tale Of Bartram-Haugh

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfənjuː/;[1][2] 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of [mehr]

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George Eliot Silas Marner By

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In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak—there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race. The shepherd's dog barked fiercely when one of these alien-looking men appeared on the upland, dark against the early winter sunset; for what dog likes a figure bent under a heavy bag?—and these pale men rarely stirred abroad without that mysterious burden. The shepherd himself, though he had good reason to believe that the bag held nothing but flaxen thread, or else the long rolls of strong linen spun from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensable though it was, could be carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One. In that far-off time superstition clung easily round every person or thing that was at all unwonted, or even intermittent and occasional merely, like the visits of the pedlar or the knife-grinder. No one knew where wandering men had their homes or their origin; and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother? To the peasants of old times, the world outside their own direct experience was a region of vagueness and mystery: to their untravelled thought a state of wandering was a conception as dim as the winter life of the swallows that came back with the spring; and even a settler, if he came from distant parts, hardly ever ceased to be viewed with a remnant of distrust, which would have prevented any surprise if a long course of inoffensive conduct on his part had ended in the commission of a crime; especially if he had any reputation for knowledge, or showed any skill in handicraft. All cleverness, whether in the rapid use of that difficult instrument the tongue, or in some other art unfamiliar to villagers, was in itself suspicious: honest folk, born and bred in a visible manner, were mostly not overwise or clever—at least, not beyond such a matter as knowing the signs of the weather; and the process by which rapidity and dexterity of any kind were acquired was so wholly hidden, that they partook of the nature of conjuring. In this way it came to pass that those scattered linen-weavers—emigrants from the town into the country—were to the last regarded as aliens by their rustic neighbours, and usually contracted the eccentric habits which belong to a state of loneliness. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Silas Marner, George Eliot

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George Eliot Silas Marner

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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her [mehr]

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William Dean Howells The Rise Of Silas Lapham Part 1

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When Bartley Hubbard Went To Interview Silas Lapham For The "Solid Men Of Boston" Series, Which He Undertook To [mehr]

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William Dean Howells The Rise Of Silas Lapham By William Dean Howells Part 1

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When Bartley Hubbard Went To Interview Silas Lapham For The "Solid Men Of Boston" Series, Which He Undertook To [mehr]

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William Dean Howells The Rise Of Silas Lapham Part 2

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Having distinctly Given Up The Project Of Asking the Laphams To Dinner, Mrs. Corey Was Able To Carry It Out With The Courage Of Sinners Who Have Sacrificed to Virtue By Frankly Acknowledging its Superiority To Their Intended transgression. She Did Not Question But The Laphams Would Come; And She Only Doubted as To The People Whom She Should Invite To Meet Them. She Opened the Matter With Some Trepidation To Her Daughters, But Neither Of Them Opposed her; They Rather Looked at The Scheme From Her Own Point Of View, And Agreed with Her That Nothing had Really Yet Been Done To Wipe Out The Obligation To The Laphams Helplessly Contracted the Summer Before, And Strengthened by That Ill-Advised application To Mrs. Lapham For Charity. [mehr]

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William Dean Howells The Rise Of Silas Lapham Part 2

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Having distinctly Given Up The Project Of Asking the Laphams To Dinner, Mrs. Corey Was Able To Carry It Out With The Courage Of Sinners Who Have Sacrificed to Virtue By Frankly Acknowledging its Superiority To Their Intended transgression. She Did Not Question But The Laphams Would Come; And She Only Doubted as To The People Whom She Should Invite To Meet Them. She Opened the Matter With Some Trepidation To Her Daughters, But Neither Of Them Opposed her; They Rather Looked at The Scheme From Her Own Point Of View, And Agreed with Her That Nothing had Really Yet Been Done To Wipe Out The Obligation To The Laphams Helplessly Contracted the Summer Before, And Strengthened by That Ill-Advised application To Mrs. Lapham For Charity. [mehr]

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J. S. Lefanu Uncle Silas A Tale Of Bartram-Haugh Part 1

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The Writer Of This Tale Ventures, In His Own Person, To Address A Very Few Words, Chiefly Of Explanation, To His Readers. A Leading Situation In This 'Story Of Bartram-Haugh' Is Repeated, With A Slight Variation, From A Short Magazine Tale Of Some Fifteen Pages Written By Him, And Published Long Ago In A Periodical Under The Title Of 'A Passage In The Secret History Of An Irish Countess,' And Afterwards, Still Anonymously, In A Small Volume Under An Altered Title. It Is Very Unlikely That Any Of His Readers Should Have Encountered, And Still More So That They Should Remember, This Trifle. The Bare Possibility, However, He Has Ventured To Anticipate By This Brief Explanation, Lest He Should Be Charged With Plagiarism--Always A Disrespect To A Reader. [mehr]

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