George Eliot
1) Silas Marner
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English
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A gentle linen weaver in a small English town is wrongly accused of a theft. He then goes into seclusion and finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage.
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English
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Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation. Presumed guilty by his community and rejected by the woman he loves, Silas leaves and lives as a recluse near Raveloe village. He takes refuge only in working and attaining wealth, until his precious gold is stolen from him. But a child, her mother found dead in the snow, is thrust into his life, changing it completely. Ultimately, Silas Marner is a redeeming
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
The novel "Middlemarch"describes in detail that the choice of an occupation by which one earns a living is also very important issue. The author very clearly points to the consequences of making wrong choices in life. The author also points to the consequences if a woman is confined to the domestic sphere alone after her marriage. Dorothea wants to be involved in social reform but her ambition is never realized
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T.Y. Crowell
Pub. Date
[19--?]
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English
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Silas Marner. A man finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage -- Lifted veil. Latimer, a sensitive and intellectual man, finds he has clairvoyant powers, and, when he meets Bertha Grant, he refuses to heed the warning visions -- Brother Jacob. Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.
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distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
2007, c1985
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English
Description
Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
9) Adam Bede
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2 entertain/BBC Video
Pub. Date
2007, c1992
Language
English
Description
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.