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I loved this book. The story of this sad and lonely man who finds love and redemption when he adopts a girl was just lovely to read.
Eliot took her protagonist from a tight knit and religious community to a solitary existence and then into the hearts of another community. She explored the theme of individual versus community so beautifully. At the time this book was written a person's village was extremely important; a person's identity was provided by the community. We see this most definitely w ...more
Eliot took her protagonist from a tight knit and religious community to a solitary existence and then into the hearts of another community. She explored the theme of individual versus community so beautifully. At the time this book was written a person's village was extremely important; a person's identity was provided by the community. We see this most definitely w ...more
After all these years, I finally picked up a book by George Eliot. Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda have been sitting on my to read shelves (my real world shelves, not my virtual shelves) for ages, taunting me with their must read-ness.
It took my daughter to make me finally pull Silas Marner from the shelf, and that only because she wanted to read it book club style with me.
I'm mostly glad I did, but I can't help feeling that maybe Silas Marner wasn't the best Eliot book to start o ...more
It took my daughter to make me finally pull Silas Marner from the shelf, and that only because she wanted to read it book club style with me.
I'm mostly glad I did, but I can't help feeling that maybe Silas Marner wasn't the best Eliot book to start o ...more
From BBC Radio 4:
With the arrival of an orphan girl, the old recluse vows to change. Stars Michael Williams, Edward Woodward and Jenny Agutter.
Page 10:
If there is an angle who records the sorrows of men as well as their sins, he knows how many and deep are the sorrows that spring from false ideas for which no man is culpable.
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Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbol ...more
With the arrival of an orphan girl, the old recluse vows to change. Stars Michael Williams, Edward Woodward and Jenny Agutter.
Page 10:
If there is an angle who records the sorrows of men as well as their sins, he knows how many and deep are the sorrows that spring from false ideas for which no man is culpable.
Page 11:
Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbol ...more
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