George Eliot — Silas Marner

London; New York, J. M. Dent & Co; E. P. Dutton & Co, 1905. Vellum. A smart vellum bound edition of this darkly themed novel on the ruins of the Industrial Revolution by eminent Victorian author George Eliot. In the original publisher's deluxe vellum binding.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, and twenty-two colour plates, by C. E. Brock.Collated, complete.'Silas Marner' is a realism novel by George Eliot, following the life of a linen weaver in the early years of the nineteenth century.Silas, the eponymous character, lives in a small Calvinist gongrection in a slum street, Lantern Yard, in Northern England. The novel ruminates on the vanished rural world with the Industrial Revolution, a common theme in Eliot's writings.George Eliot was the pseudonym used by the writer Mary Ann Evans. She published under a male name to escape the preconceived ideas about women's fiction during the era. Eliot is one of the best known Victorian writers, and many believe that her novel 'Middlemarch' is the greatest novel in the English Language. Her other works include 'Adam Bede', 'Romola', and 'Daniel Deronda&apos. In the original publisher's deluxe vellum binding. Externally, smart. Light age-toning to the boards and spine, as is usual with vellum. A few spots and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional scattered spot. Near Fine . Ill.: C. E. Brock. Near Fine .