'Silas Marner' is George Eliot boiled and drained, and what's left is more like an allegory or a fable than a novel. The lesson against parsimony and categorical judgement of our neighbors weighs heavy and overrules the characterization.In her first two novels there was considerable time spent on de...
Gwendolen is almost an anti-heroine (or would seem to be within the confines of her time), and hence the most compelling character in the book.
If all three stories had not been about "the most beautiful and witty women at court," it would have been easier to feel a connection to these women and the various states of love/infidelity they get into with, of course, the handsomest men at court. On the other hand, whether plain or fair looking,...
This was the first George Eliot book I read and it's an excellent one, my favorite after Middlemarch. Eliot was a great novelist. Too bad she had to hide behind a man's name back then for folks to think so.
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