Silas Marner

[ sahy-luhs mahr-ner ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

The scene in the pot-house in "Silas Marner" is as perfect as a Dutch painting, yet the author never entered a pot-house.

Adam Bede is, in construction, the most perfect of her novels, and Silas Marner of her shorter stories.

Silas Marner lost his money through his “sense of security,” which “more frequently springs from habit than conviction.”

To a certain extent, I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works.

Silas Marner took a little girl into his tiny house to care for, and she made his life happy again.

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