SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe

by George Eliot

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First edition

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition of Eliot's fable in realist dress, a model of the best of Victorian fiction and a perfect prose idyll Thompson, 804 . Near fine. Item #47295 The idea for Eliot's only one-volume novel came quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale suggested by her childhood memory of seeing a weaver. By degrees she became inclined to a more realistic treatment,

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