gwyneira 's review for:

Silas Marner by George Eliot
5.0

In Dickens' hands, Silas Marner would have been what many people condemn it as: a soppy, sentimental Victorian story of a man redeemed by love. (I'm not necessarily slamming Dickens here; I appreciate him, but I love Eliot much more.) In Eliot's hands, it's beautifully warm and human, without being mawkishly sentimental.