amybrownhughes 's review for:

Silas Marner by George Eliot

4.0

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This one took a little more getting into than Middlemarch for me. Why, I have no idea. It's considerably shorter and much ore straightforward. Eliot's power of description and ability to convey complex characters and their dilemmas is present again in the much smaller cast of characters. A relativel simple story of a isolated and damaged man who thinks he has something priceless in his stash of money loses it and gains someone precious instead. Silas Marner's transformation back into the world of humanity as a result of his sudden assumption of fatherhood for a toddler is full of tender moments that are so fragile one worries that he might not really understand what he has gained. That's the beauty of this work, though, what or whom we treasure marks who we truly are.