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Silas Marner

George Eliot

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Sep 23, 2012 Christine rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance-lovers-challenge-2014, audiobooks, british-literature, read-in-2014, radio-bbc-4, classics, 1a-owned-but-not-read, freebiez, nbrc-wheel-a-thon-challenge

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Classic Serial - July 30

Silas Marner by George Eliot
dramatised by Richard Cameron

SILAS MARNER.............George Costigan
SARAH/PRISCILLA ............................Fiona Clarke
WILLIAM/JEM/GODFREY...........Conrad Nelson
MINISTER/MACEY.............Seamus O'Neill
SNELL/BRYCE..............Leigh Symonds
DUNSEY/DOWLAS..............James Nickerson
SQUIRE ............. ......Terence Wilton
DOLLY............. ...Deborah McAndrew
AARON (child).............................George Herbert
NANCY/MOLLY... ...more

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Mar 07, 2020 Sarah rated it really liked it

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This was a lovely little melodrama that, who'd of thunk it, I enjoyed very much. The story of a man who gets beat up by life, and taken advantage of by supposed friends. He becomes a miserly hermit, no longer trusting humanity. Then he adopts (or is adopted by) a two year old orphan. He has a happy life after that, and so does the little girl. George Eliot always has a moral point to make, and she makes it here. Justice is served to all in deserving measures. The poor are often morally better th ...more

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