[Silas Marner]
Year:
1861
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Dover Pubns
Year of publication:
1996
Pages:
160
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Silas, a linen weaver, is driven out of a small religious community when falsely accused of theft. He goes to Raveloe where Dunstan Cass, the son of the local squire, steals the little gold he had. Dunstan's brother Godfrey, though married, falls in love with another woman. When his wife brings to him their newborn child, she dies on the way in the snow. Silas steps in to adopt the unwanted child, Eppie, and he finds fulfillment in this new role.
George Eliot was born in 1819 and died in 1880. She converted to Evangelicalism. The solemnity of the subject matter is relieved by many instances of humour.
Author: Cliff Cobb, United Kingdom
Update on: Sep 2023