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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
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With the arrival of an orphan girl, the old recluse vows to change. Stars Michael Williams, Edward Woodward and Jenny Agutter.
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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
(Yet another one of my favorite books which was lacking a review!)
Where to begin... Ah, yes, high school. I chose George Eliot (AKA Mary Ann Evans) for my AP Literature class as my focus author: I read three of her novels, and since Silas Marner is her shortest and I was 17, you better believe it was first on my reading list (Obviously Middlemarch was last).
If you can read Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, you can definitely read George Eliot. She doesn't have Austen's wit nor Dickens' farce, ...more
Where to begin... Ah, yes, high school. I chose George Eliot (AKA Mary Ann Evans) for my AP Literature class as my focus author: I read three of her novels, and since Silas Marner is her shortest and I was 17, you better believe it was first on my reading list (Obviously Middlemarch was last).
If you can read Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, you can definitely read George Eliot. She doesn't have Austen's wit nor Dickens' farce, ...more
Silas Marner is, ultimately, a story of love and trust and good will in a world that tolerates all of the manifestations of the human spirit, both good and ill.
The story invites you to pay attention to the good guys.
Evans (Eliot) offers some of her insights regarding “people whose lives have been made various by learning.” (p. 24)
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The story invites you to pay attention to the good guys.
Evans (Eliot) offers some of her insights regarding “people whose lives have been made various by learning.” (p. 24)
Read more of my book reviews and poems here:
www.richardsubber.com ...more
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