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Silas Marner (Penguin Classics)
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37. Mill on the Floss, George Eliot, 1990's
38. Great Expectations, Dickens, 1969
39. Silas Marner, George Eliot , 1960's
40. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, 2008
41. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, 1980's
42. Notes From the Underground, Dostoevsky, 1968
42. *Our Mutual Friend ...
>150 Alaska, if you loved Silas Marner which is an inferior book then you will absolutely die for Middlemarch which is practically perfect in every way! Don't let the length put you off, it will not disappoint, I promise!
149 Flossie, it is definately a re-read for retirement!
- TT
... to finish a book. My sleepless nights are haunted.
I've wanted to read Middlemarch for a long time. I loved Silas Marner but that's the only Eliot I've read.
Silas Marner is by George Eliot. If you haven't read Tess of the d'Ubervilles, that's a fast-paced Hardy that's hard to put down. The Mayor of Casterbridge is also fun. I love how scandalous and off beat Hardy's books are despite his appearance as a stogy old man.
... is good too, though I haven't read this one (just the Hornblower series) so a nudgoid for that one. I also enjoyed Silas Marner .
... the World in Eighty Days
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
Saint-Exupèry, Antoine: Night Flight
Eliot, George: Silas Marner
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden and Civil Disobedience
Parker, Robert B. : Double Play
These I'm planning to get from the library:
Chaucer, Geoffrey: ...
... pretty free--"mysteries" because I read so many anyway and "because I want to" which is my freebie category.
I'm reading Silas Marner and Dandelion Wine this year also. I anxious to see what goes into your "genre" category--I think that one is a great idea!
... Bowen - Evanly Bodies
4. MC Beaton - Death of a Witch (Feb '09)
5. Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
6. George Eliot - Silas Marner
7. Val McDermid - A Place of Execution
8. Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
9. Elizabeth George - Careless in Red
... of Rebecca last week and plan to reread it soon--you have whetted my desire to visit Manderley again.
And I'm adding Silas Marner to my 999 classics category--I have been wanting to read another Eliot novel.
Thanks for a delightful time this afternoon!
... Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
6-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
7-Middlemarch by George Eliot
8-Silas Marner by George Eliot
9-The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
...
Ideas for 999 challenge
Category 1: Classics & Fiction (Possible cross-over category)
1. Eliot, George: Silas Marner (or Mill on the Floss
2. Huxley, Aldus: Brave New World (Fantasy)
3. Orwell, George: 1984 (Fantasy)
4. Orwell, George: Keep ...
... and Men
2. Wuthering Heights
3. David Copperfield
4. Bleak House
5. Vanity Fair
6. To the Lighthouse
7. Silas Marner
8. The House of the Seven Gables
YA Books
1. The Book Thief - finished
2. Before I Die - finished
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time
...
... and Men
2. Wuthering Heights
3. David Copperfield
4. Bleak House
5. Vanity Fair
6. To the Lighthouse
7. Silas Marner
8. The House of the Seven Gables
YA Books
1. The Book Thief - finished
2. Before I Die - finished
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time
...
... Four Novels in the same "Library of Essential Writer" series. The four novels are: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner , and Middlemarch. I had read Adam Bede in January.
Yes to Great Expectations.....how about Silas Marner ?
... heroes.
Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald which grabbed me from the opening line to the very end.
Silas Marner by George Eliot because it stands the test of time.
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley because of Mrs. Noyes -- what an inspiration she ...
... ranford
26. Villette
27. North and South
28. Adam Bede
29. The Woman in White
30. The Mill on the Floss
31. Silas Marner
32. Fathers and Sons
33. The Water-Babies
34. Crime and Punishment
35. The Last Chronicle of Barset
36. The Moonstone
37. Middlemarch
38. In ...
... no more children's books" from my parents. Since I was starting homeschool that year, they obliged, and my mother bought me Silas Marner , Hound of the Baskervilles, The Jungle Book,The Pearl, and a bunch of others. That's where my love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began. Also I was fascinated ...
Tom Jones
Silas Marner
Ethan Frome
Martin Chuzzlewit
Adam Bede
... It's funny, one of the books currently on rotation for me is Middlemarch. I didn't particularly enjoy Adam Bede or Silas Marner , so I don't know what made me think this would be better, but that's a story for another time.
Aside from Middlemarch, the books I currently have in ...
... Eliot, saying confidently that I'd read and enjoyed it in high school. Now we're reading it, I realise that it was Silas Marner we read in high school ... and Middlemarch is 780 pages of small type. But we've given ourselves six weeks to read it, so I'm sure we'll get there.
... book group I'm in - 6 weeks to get through 780 pages of type so small I'll need a magnifying glass. But I really enjoyed Silas Marner , so I'm looking forward to Middlemarch as well.
... book - and so when I saw the LT group read I thought it would be the perfect opportunity. I had read George Eliot (Silas Marner ) at school but nothing since then.
The End Of Mr Y - had seen in bookshops and been intrigued by the cover, but not enough to buy it. Then I got an ERC ...
... getting them all to sign copies for sale.
On George Eliot.....looking forward to reading this author. Toss up between Silas Marner and Middlemarch to start. Probably they will make a TBR stack in the not too distant future.
On Baum, etc....Been looking for some good old, used copies ...
... Perkins Gilman
Rumi Poet and Mystic
translated by Reynold A Nicholson
Heloise & Abelard
by James Burge
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
Everybody's Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
The Paper House
by Carlos Maria Dominguez
... Michael Ondaatje
26- The piano teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
27- The call of the wild by Jack London
28- Silas Marner by George Eliot
29- Middlemarch by George Eliot
30- mistress of the art of death by Ariana Franklin
31- The size of the world by Joan Sil ...
... on the fact that it seemed, in general, that characters got exactly their just deserts. The only other Eliot I have read is Silas Marner , many many years ago, but I remember in that too it was pretty clear that certain sorts of behaviour lead to Bad Ends.
I think Eliot's praise/approval is ...
Thanks for the welcome!
I listened to Silas Marner and really enjoyed it.
The Magnificent Ambersons was a very good read about the demise of the grand old families of medium sized cities. Really well done!
I have to admit that The House of the Seven Gables dragged a bit, but I ...
... oup!!!!
Great List. Couple of them I'd like your thoughts on as they are on my shelves but I haven't yet read them.
Silas Marner A couple of threads on the site here have commented by I wanted to see what you thought. Also Middlemarch as that's another George Eliot.
The ...
... after Chapter 40.
I'm not sorry I read this book, but I can't say I loved it. The only other Eliot work I've read was Silas Marner , about 25 years ago. I still remember it was a struggle for me then (where was the Internet & LT in those days?!). There is something about Eliot's style that ...
Did you enjoy Silas Marner ? It is my least favourite Eliot but she is amazing so it is still a good read.
#27- Middlemarch by George Eliot
#28 - Silas Marner by George Eliot
#29- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
#30 - The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
#31 - Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
#32 - Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
While on actual vacation, I traveled in the literary world from Victorian England Silas Marner and Middlemarch by George Eliot, to Austria with The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, to the wilds of Alaska with Call of the Wild by Jack London to Botswana with The Full Cupboard ...
Just back from a great vacation..............I read Middlemarch by George Eliot, Silas Marner by George Eliot , Call of the Wild by Jack London, Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi, and The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek. I just started the sequel to The Sparrow, Childr ...
42. Silas Marner by George Eliot. I really enjoyed this book. Ms. Elliot tends to be verbose and this can be sometimes irritating as you feel like you are spending time reading quotes while you wait to get to the meat of the story. But once you get past that you are left with a lovely tale of ...
... Penguin Classics edition (which I'd be even more lost without). I haven't tackled an Eliot novel for about 20 years, i.e. Silas Marner . Even tho' I've read a deal of 19th C literature by Dickens and Trollope in the last year I'm finding Eliot more heavy-going. But I'm hopeful I'll settle into ...
... and, in a group such as this, are malicious.
After all the Jane Austen and Dickens I've read, and remembering Silas Marner from many years ago, I am bowled over by how modern, both Dorothea and the narrator are. Dorothea is much more concerned with compatibility than security, a ...
I actually liked Silas Marner , kambrogi, but I think we all feel that way about one classic or another. I sometimes have a hard time admitting I didn't like a classic because, after all, it's a classic. But the story itself has to appeal to you, in addition to the writing itself. Just because it's ...
I didn't guess the punchline, cabegley, and what a surprise! I always felt the same way about Silas Marner , studied and later taught in school because it has a place in literary history, but on its own rather an awful book, imho, for many of the reasons Tom Jones may be. Both the play and the ...
... of Living Dangerously
Barcelona
The Pilgrim's Progress
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
This Cold Heaven
Silas Marner
The Soong Dynasty
Silas Marner - shudder
The collected works of Christine Feehan
In fact any romance books in quick succession or any academic theorist who likes jargon, repeating themselves and baffling their readers because they don't have any new ideas..
#111 okie: Silas Marner is on my list for this year.
... Catechism of the Catholic Church, which, no doubt, will take me even longer to finish.
I am more than halfway through Silas Marner (I need to finish it quickly because it is due at the library). After finishing Mystics and Miracles by Bert Ghezzi, I started The World's First Love by F ...
#337 : I love George Eliot! But Silas Marner IS my least favourite of her works.
... If I remember correctly it was made in connection with a dramatisation of one of her novels - probably Daniel Deronda or Silas Marner . It was a BBC1 production which is never a good sign; the thinking (wo)man's channel is BBC2 (or BBC4 now). The reason I say that is if a programme like this ...
For me it was Silas Marner by George Eliot. I was forced to read this way back in 19** for High School. Hated it then and have tried to read it serveral times over the decades and still hate it.
When I see book burnings recreated on TV, or movies or read about them they make me cringe at ...
... I knew they had two copies over there.
Aside from that, though, I also ended up buying:
Waiting by Ha Jin
Silas Marner by George Eliot
To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
I ...
... read Bleak House, Dr. Jekyll, and Confessions of an English Opium Eater. We also covered Trollope's The Warden, Eliot's Silas Marner . Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy. Good times.
... to your books and their authors. Instructions are located to the right of the area where you post messages. Like this: Silas Marner by George Eliot. Don't despair, though, the Touchstones don't always work. For example, this one worked for the book title, but not the author. Enjoy! : ...
No. 6 -Silas Marner by George Eliot - This dragged a bit for me until Eppie showed up. I kept having the feeling all the way through that I had read it before, but I'm pretty sure that I haven't - maybe I saw it on PBS or something. Can't remember. Getting old. It was, in the end, a sweet ...
I paid $0.60 for a copy of Silas Marner in a used bookstore, but it was in good condition. I think that was the cheapest book I've ever bought... I'm quite good at finding sales and great deals when it comes to books, here's a short list...
Sophie's World, $3.30
The Wings of the Dove, great ...
... brackets around the authors, then we can click on them and go to the book or author to find out more info on them. Example-Silas Marner . The author pops right in after you put the brackets around the title of the book. Ain't technology grand? Good luck with your challenge!
... Mom was always good with recommendations for me, though, especially when it came to classics -- some of her favorites are Silas Marner , A Tale of Two Cities (I am mystified as to why this won't touchstone), and The Scarlet Pimpernel. She also read a lot of gardening books -- I ...
... pretty soon. I think of that as a classic. Would you? Also thinking about reading Little Dorrit. Maybe. Or maybe Silas Marner .
... lins
7. The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins
8. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Edit: 8 was previously Silas Marner by George Eliot
... 1/10/2008)
3. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
4. My Antonia by willa Cather (completed 1/21/2008-
5. Silas Marner by George Eliot
6. The Professors House by Willa Cather (completed 7/1/08)
7. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
8. Middlemarch by George El ...
... the bookmobile came to our neighborhood.
In school I don't remember being exposed to many classics - I recall reading Silas Marner , The Scarlet Letter, and Great Expectations in high school, but no Austen or Shakespeare or Steinbeck or Hemingway. Even as an English major in college, ...
... the movie comes out, The Master, A Thousand Splendid Suns and How Proust Can Change Your Life. I'm also reading Silas Marner aloud to my partner.
... the usual stands selling everything from crafts, to food, to BOOKS!! I can't believe what I purchased! I found a copy of Silas Marner by George Eliot and the publication date is 1898. I paid 25 cents for it! It's in very good shape except for a few crayon marks on the back cover. I ...
... Oliver Twist, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol
Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
Robert Frost -- a pretty good bit of his poetry
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Se ...
... book ever) and one on Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.
Other years we read A Tale of Two Cities, Les Miserables, Silas Marner , Great Expectations, The Catcher in the Rye, Heart of Darkness (which I have read three times and still can't stand), The Grapes of Wrath, The Scarlet ...
... scary since I only left 6 years ago (mind you I didn't do lit at A-Level)
I do remember reading
A Christmas Carol
Silas Marner - intensely dull in my opinion
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Animal Farm
(but there must be at least 5 others that we did in detail just by virtue of ...
... fiction was because I was pondering whether all the stories explore women's lives in some central way. Thus, George Eliot's Silas Marner was not chosen...or Cather's Death comes for the Archbishop. Just a theory?
... adapt his Christian thinking to my own, but that does not devalue the work.
I have loved George Eliot since I read Silas Marner as an adult. I wondered then why they had made us read it in grammar school; it is too well written to be appreciated by most sixth graders. I put her off ...
2nd year of secondary school (c.12years old) We were made to read Silas Marner which as far as I can work out has little enough to recommend it at the best of times. Our teacher picked on people to read it in class (and yes I read on and finished it as soon as we got it - much good it did me). The ...
... done with Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown.
Next up is G. by John Berger and perhaps George Eliot's Silas Marner .
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The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
Dr No by Ian Fleming
Never Say Die by Tess Gerritsen
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January:
1. Silas Marner by George Eliot
2. Tale of Genji: Scenes from the World's First Novel by Murasaki Shikibu and Jakucho Setouchi; illustrated by Masayuki Miyata
3. The Book of Loss by Julith Jedamus
4. The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
5. Diary of Lady Murasaki ...
... I also got there. I never got past chapter one in that thing. I don't even want to think about the time they made me read Silas Marner in high school.
It took me forever to get through George Eliot's Silas Marner and Mill on the Floss. I couldn't put down any of Neil Stephenson's books, particularly the Baroque Cycle, but I LOVE historical fiction, and I found his writing to be extraordinarily evocative for the genre.
I think ...
... them and I can definitely understand them better. In high school though, I remember struggling with Great Expectations, Silas Marner , Moby Dick, Billy Budd, and The Scarlet Letter. I believe I'll appreciate the first two a lot more now if I read them again, not so the rest.
Right ...
I would be happy to read Middlemarch. I just finished Silas Marner this morning, and I'm game for another Eliot.
I finished Silas Marner this morning. After struggling at the beginning, I was completely won over by the story. I did find her prose difficult, and I can't imagine the book being taken to warmly as a school reading assignment.
I'm planning to start Trollope's The Way We Live Now today.
... or 6th grade I think. I'd love to reread it again
Jhowell--I completly agree with you about Middlemarch. I also loved Silas Marner .
Right now I'm reading The Light in August by William Faulkner. I'm really enjoying it.
I am starting Silas Marner by George Eliot. For some reason, I've never read any of her books.
... When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, an LT-inspired read. It was quiet and heartbreaking.
Now I'm starting Silas Marner by George Eliot.
I am now reading The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot and enjoying it ever so much more than I enjoyed Silas Marner . This may be because I was 14 when I read the latter, but still, definitely positive!
... he wasn't as interested in the book as I was!) I also read a lot of Shakespeare. There was also The Scarlett Letter and Silas Marner .
I have a son in high school currently. I can't remember everything he's had to read, but it's been an interesting mix: Raisin in the Sun, Deathwatch, ...
... is Raymond Feist. I've heard several people RAVE about his works but I found them quite tedious.
Easier to read Silas Marner
The books that I remember being assigned include Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Silas Marner , Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and more modern stuff like Johnny Tremain, Lord of the Flies, and A Day No Pigs Would Die.
On my own, I was reading ...
... tested on them.
Having said that, however, there are a few required-reading classics that were not hateful. I enjoyed Silas Marner , Ethan Frome, all the Shakespeare plays, a few Dickens and a few I have since forgotten. Edgar Allen Poe was always a favorite, probably because ...
Ethan Frome is a favorite of mine but I also liked Silas Marner .
... least another 30 years to come back to Middlemarch in, so I'm in no rush. :) (I do like Eliot generally, never fear. Silas Marner is a favourite.)
