Silas Marner: Easy to Read Classics

George Eliot

Feb 2012 · Bring the Classics to Life Book 19 · EDCON Publishing Group

About this ebook

Bring The Classics To Life Series. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Readers will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. Knowledge of Classics is a cultural necessity and these will improve fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through a high Interest / low readability format. Each eBookis divided into 10 short high quality illustrated chapters - Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary - Has been measured by the Fry Readability Formula - Defines and uses in context new vocabulary, prior to each chapter.

About the author

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans. She was born on November 22, 1819, in Warwickshire, England, Due to her fatherÕs important role on the estate of Arbury Hall. Her novels draw heavily on Greek Literature. Ann was allowed access to the library, which aided her education and learning. After the death of her father in 1849, she moved to London where she met George Henry Lewes and fell in love. Lewes was married, but his wife had left him. With little chance of George being granted a legal divorce, Mary Ann and George Lewes agreed to live together as man and wife. At first, this made them social outcasts but, later, their friends and society accepted their situation. Lewes died in 1878 and in 1880 Mary Ann married an American banker, J.W. Cross. Soon after, on December 22, 1880 George Eliot died. Her most famous works are Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner