1905 Silas Marner

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the original publisher's deluxe vellum binding.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, and twenty-two colour plates, by C. E. Brock.

Collated, complete.

'Silas Marner' is a realism novel by George Eliot, following the life of a linen weaver in the early years of the nineteenth century.

Silas, the eponymous character, lives in a small Calvinist gongrection in a slum street, Lantern Yard, in Northern England.

The novel ruminates on the vanished rural world with the Industrial Revolution, a common theme in Eliot's writings.

George Eliot was the pseudonym used by the writer Mary Ann Evans. She published under a male name to escape the preconceived ideas about women's fiction during the era. Eliot is one of the best known Victorian writers, and many believe that her novel 'Middlemarch' is the greatest novel in the English Language. Her other works include 'Adam Bede', 'Romola', and 'Daniel Deronda'.