EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 121. Introduction by Annie Matheson. Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans. The greatest popular library containing 1058 of the world's best books, past and present. "When George Eliot published Silas Marner in 1861 she was at the height of her powers as a novelist and was writing in a period of remarkable intellectual and literary achievement. She herself described the novel as 'legendary' and yet 'realistic.' Its realism is unmistakably clear, and the book offers a beautiful microcosm of English village life in the early nineteenth century. One especially interesting aspect of the realism here is the picture of traditional English Congregationalism, with its plainness, frugality, and severe, homely piety which have an important part in the whole complex of English provincial culture. The book is notable too for the character of the girl Eppie and for unlettered Dolly Winthrop's influence on the weaver's sad early years and his mellowing later life." RG4 Very good red cloth volume. Gilt titles. Slight wear, slight fading to spine, slight soiling. (1944), (1906), 12mo, x, 262pp. 3/2//N Seymour Temple Press

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