Three Everyman Classics in One Volume.
Tales of solitude and family, isolation and community.
Unjustly rejected by his Chapel community, the weaver Silas Marner is regarded with suspicion by the inhabitants of his new home, Raveloe. Silas's only consolation is his growing hoard of gold - but even this is taken from him. His shaken trust in God and man is restored through the pure redemptive power of his sympathy and love for the golden-haired child who comes to him mysteriously out of the night.
In 'The Lifted Veil' Latimer, alienated from the people around him by his second sight and ability to read their innermost secrets, finds himself in a world lacking in tenderness and love, condemned to wander on his own.
In 'Brother Jacob' David Faux steals from his mother in order to set himself up in business. The origin of his success is eventually revealed by his idiot brother, Jacob, and he is exiled form the polite society he has dishonestly sought to join.
A unique selection of texts, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of Eliot's life and times.
