by George Eliot, Tricia Hedge · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230445
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«Silas Marner» is George Eliot's novel adapted as a graded reader, published by Oxford University Press España in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Silas Marner, a linen weaver who lives apart and friendless in rural England, finds his only happiness in the gold he keeps at home. When his treasure is stolen, his life seems empty until the appearance of an orphan girl named Eppie opens up a new possibility of love and belonging to the community.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 4, with a vocabulary of 1,400 words. The adaptation is by Clare West and the reading is recommended from age 16.
For students of English as a foreign language who want to improve their reading comprehension while discovering a classic.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
