Silas Marner by George Eliot 1948 Dodd Mead Publishing Unabridged & Illustrated Edition Classic Literature

This is a very good hardcover with an good accompanying dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. 1948 Dodd Mead Publishing, illustrated and unabridged. This copy is very good inside and out. The inside pages are very good and clean. NOTE: previous owners name marked out inside front cover, see photo. The binding is tight and straight. Green cloth hardcover boards under jacket are also very good with only hints of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is very good as protected in clear archival mylar sleeve. Octavo book size or 6" x 9" with 241 pages. This is an illustrated edition with illustrations and foreword by the artist, Basil Davenport.

Silas Marner was written by Mary Ann Evans under the pen name George Eliot. The novel was first published in 1861. Despite being the shortest of her major novels, the Victorian novel was highly celebrated. The main character is Silas, a deeply religious linen weaver. After being falsely accused of theft by his best friend and abandoned by his fiancée, he suffers loss of faith.
Silas exiles to a remote, superstitious rural village. There he spends 15 years living a reclusive life full of bitterness. He weaves incessantly and finds comfort only in hoarding his gold coins.
He suffers tragedy first in romance and second when a toddler wanders into his cottage on a snowy New Year's Eve. The toddlers mother has died and Silas decides to raise the young girl himself. Through his adoptive love and parental devotion, his faith in humanity is restored, bringing him back into the fabric of the community

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