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I hated this when I was forced to read it in school. For some reason, went back to it about ten years later and loved it. Have read it several times since then, and each time I find it richer and more satisfying. It's a beautiful little tale with some morals right out in the open and others hidden.
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Silas Marner is a moving story of a man who lost everything and is brought back to happiness and fulfillment by reaching out to others around him. The gentry worrying about who marries whom was a bit dry, but it didn't take up much of the story. All the conflicts are resolved in the end, but not in the ways I expected. The dialect was a but tricky at first, but it didn't detract from the story. In fact it added to it. The lower classes are the true heroes in this story, as in real life.
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Silas Marner is another of those Classics that I wish so much that I had read a long time ago! What a memorable character Silas Marner is! The book is so rich in symbols and has such a powerful message of what in life has truly the most enduring worth and how the most valuable things in life are not those things which can be bought with money. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful story!
It was difficult to get into the story in the first chapter or so because of the early nineteenth century English di ...more
It was difficult to get into the story in the first chapter or so because of the early nineteenth century English di ...more
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