Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: Silas Marner: 1400 Headwords

by George Eliot (Author), Clare West (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $17.33

  In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away? What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend?

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories intended for use at GCSE level. Silas Marner is a linen weaver, working alone in his cottage. He loves only his gold, until he meets the abandoned golden-haired child of an opium addict. Each book in the series provides guidance and support to enable students to begin their GCSE work immediately, even on their own. The study material includes: the writer on writing - a section by or about the writer exploring the process of writing; an introduction for GCSE readers; guidance on keeping a reading log; a glossary; and a full study programme designed for the National Curriculum and GCSE syllabuses in English and English Literature. Although the study material is written with GCSE students in mind, it could also be used with A level students.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1972

  $17.45

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $13.04

  Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. Silas Marner by George Eliot is edited by Mary Bousted of the University of York.

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $15.54

  When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his back on the world. But an etraordinary sequence of events, including the appearance of a tiny child in his cottage, melts Silas's heart and transforms his life. George Eliot's tender pastoral is at once a realistic story of rural life and a symbolic drama of sin and repentance, Written in her simplest style, it paints a vivid picture of a rural life long since vanished.