Silas Marner
Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · December 28, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- A wrongful accusation and two unsettling clues give this classic its quiet pull.
- Genres
- The Classics, 19th-Century English Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, December 28, 2012
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Silas Marner is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds. Two clues are given against him: a pocket-knife and the discovery of the bag formerly containing the money in his own house.
Clues and Suspicion
A wrongful accusation and two unsettling clues give this classic its quiet pull.
Come here for
- A classic shaped by accusation and telling clues
- A layered puzzle about suspicion and evidence
Expect
- Nineteenth-century English fiction with room to weigh what counts as proof
Where it sits
| The Classics | 67% |
|---|---|
| 19th-Century English Fiction | 41% |
| Literary Fiction | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Gothic Romance
- Authors
- George Eliot
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- December 28, 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Gothic Romance