{"product_id":"silas-marner-introduction-by-rosemary-ashton-hardcover","title":"Silas Marner: Introduction by Rosemary Ashton - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRosemary Ashton\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marner's redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliot's most beloved and widely read work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot's greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduction by Rosemary Ashton\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.F. Strauss's \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Jesus Critically Examined\u003c\/i\u003e (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism. After her father's death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the \u003ci\u003eWestminster Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce. In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith Lewes's encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, \"The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton,\" for \u003ci\u003eBlackwood's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in 1857; it was followed by two more stories published under the pseudonym George Elliot--\"George\" because it was Lewes's name and \"Eliot\" because, she said, it was good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word.\" At the age of thirty-nine she used her memories of Warwickshire to write her first long novel, \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e (1859), a book that established her as the foremost woman novelist in her day. Then came \u003ci\u003eThe Mill on the Floss \u003c\/i\u003e(1860), \u003cb\u003eSilas Marner\u003c\/b\u003e (1861), and \u003ci\u003eRomola\u003c\/i\u003e (1863). Her masterpiece and one of the greatest English novels, \u003cb\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/b\u003e, was published in 1871-72. Her last work was \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e (1876). After Lewes's death George Eliot married John Walter Cross. He was forty; she was sixty-one. Before her death on December 22, 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.44 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Silas Marner\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 14\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756917719328,"sku":"9780679420309","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0ffec960ce1e187d9f19870eaf315bcf.webp?v=1780089157","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/silas-marner-introduction-by-rosemary-ashton-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}