Silas Marner

One of her critics, himself a novelist of a high order, has said that in its unity of purpose and dramatic expression Silas Marner is more nearly a masterpiece than any other of George Eliot's novels; “it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect, that absence of loose ends and gaping issues, which marks a classical work.”

George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

In "Silas Marner," in my opinion, she has come nearest the mildly rich tints of brown and gray, the mellow lights and the undreadful corner-shadows of the Dutch masters whom she emulates.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

"Silas Marner," that she often used ungrammatical language, and was not highly educated, but that she was a thorough lady because she had delicate personal habits and high rectitude.

Girls and Women Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester} Paine

Sanscrit as of Erse Scottis or gaelic; calls England an island! and wishes to teach everyone "The ode to a Skylark," "Silas Marner," [19] and

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

"Silas Marner," written for a purpose, 13; example of a plot, 20; time consumed in the story, 36; quotation to show paragraph length, 152-156.

English: Composition and Literature 1899

Indeed, she was presently much interested in the admirable portraiture of "Silas Marner," and still more by the keen, vivid enjoyment, critical, droll, and moralizing, displayed by a man who heard works of fiction so rarely that they were always fresh to him, and who looked on them as studies of life.

Clever Woman of the Family Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

When first we meet Silas Marner, he is a young village weaver with enterprise and promise.

Stories of Fathers and Daughters Alexandra Styron 2011

To describe the mortal agonies I believed myself to be suffering every time she drew attention to Murray's first-serve stats, exclaimed at a mis-hit, or passed comment on the greenness of his shirt, would embarrass both of us; suffice it to say, I retreated into an irascible, miserly silence that channelled the Grinch, Silas Marner and Ebenezer Scrooge into one flawless and potentially infinite sulk.

Pain of watching sport that I will never die happy | Emma John 2011

Since 1971, intelligent Americans had been giving up on homegrown pap to watch superior British dramas on the PBS network's Masterpiece Theatre – Testament of Youth, Paradise Postponed, Silas Marner.

US television gives us The Wire. We give them Piers Morgan 2010

Of Silas Marner in the sixth grade: "If Rumsfeld had known of it, they seriously would have put this to use at Guantanamo."

Hangovers 2010