Headwork Classics

by George Eliot, Trevor Millum, David Bennett

Silas Marner trusts no one. Accused of a crime he did not commit, he now lives alone. He spends all day working at his loom. He is only happy when he counts his gold. Then, one day, his money vanishes. Who had taken it? And who is the little girl who arrives at his cottage in the middle of a
snowstorm?

The aim of these texts is to provide classic literature in an accessible form for lower-ability readers. In addition to language level, short chapters and clear picture cues from the illustrations will aid comprehension.

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2000

About the author

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.