A review by mkinne
Silas Marner by George Eliot

4.0

I took entirely too long to read this. A great story pinned down and drawn out by 19th C writing: I've got to read more like this to get past my irritation. In the afterword by Kathryn Hughes--I read the 2007 Signet Classics edition & skipped the intro by Frederick R. Karle--she says Silas Marner is Eliot's shortest, tightest narrative. I can see what a splash it must've made in the 1860s, but I should've set myself up to enjoy this more with at least a bio of Eliot.