{"title":"Penguin Classic Series","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"penguin-classics-silas-marner","title":"Penguin Classics : Silas Marner - Paperback","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSilas Marner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. 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Leavis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator, and later editor, of the Westminster Review. 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