Terence Cave and Terence Cave ( editor ) - Silas Marner: With Readers Guide

Pros: Interesting Plot, funny at times, moderately short, better toward the end
Cons: Extremely descriptive

This is the story of a linen weaver named Silas Marner, who is betrayed by his best friend and community, and is forced to move to the village of Raveloe, living a solitary life. Feeling abandoned by God and society, he spends his time weaving linen and,...

Pros: Another book on my desk,
Cons: but not my favorite one.

Silas Marner
Summary:

This is the story of Silas Marner. This story is from the time there was already industry, but everyone worked at home. The countryside was very isolated. The people who where linen-weavers were looked at on the...

Pros: The writer's style fits well with the period of time in which the narrative takes place. The reader is transported to the time and place of the narrative.
Cons: Shallow, insensitive, unthinking individuals may find the narrative boring.

George Eliot successfully brings you into the lives of the people portrayed in her novel, Silas Marner. She successfully examines the ostracism of an individual from the society in which he lives due to the perception on the part of his contemporaries...

Pros: Once you get through this book you should have at least 20 more words in your vocabulary
Cons: It is hard for the first few very descriptive chapters

To start off Mary Ann Evans Cross (George Eliot) is a very descriptive writer. If you aren't ready for a tough challenging book then you shouldn't read this. I am in 10th grade and I wasn't ready for this book. She has a very extensive vocabulary...

Pros: Mind jogging and keeps you interested with twists and deep meanings.
Cons: Chidren will get bored easily because of the their lack of experience of living.

I had to read this book for my English class and at first I thought it was extremely boring, it was, in the first 2 chapters. But if your looking for a good mind jogger, this is an excellent book to do that for you. Silas Marner, and old miser who was...

Pros: good to help develop your reading skills
Cons: hard to get into the book

this book is so boring. after reading 2 chapters and not getting anyware i just had to get the cliffnotes for it. The cliffnotes made it really intresting and trunkcated (took out) all the boring discriptive parts. There's a good video on this book also,...

Pros: Good vocabulary, descriptions, and plot. Great book!
Cons: None

I first read Silas Marner, because I assigned it to my 7th grade English students for a book report. I went home over the weekend, in order to read it, and it was finished 3 hours after I started. The book was absolutely incredible. It became an...