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Hello All!
Just a reminder that book club is at my house on Thursday at 7:30. We are discussing Silas Marner by George Eliot. We are also having our annual book exchange! Bring a new or used book all wrapped up. Excited to see everybody!!
Joni
December’s Book Club will be held at Joni’s house and will be our annual book exchange. Please bring a wrapped book (new or used) to exchange.
Happy Reading!
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Selected by Group Pick
From Amazon.com:
Silas Marner is a novel by George Eliot. An outwardly simple tale of a reclusive weaver, in its strong realism it represents one of Eliot’s most sophisticated treatments of her attitude to religion. In Silas Marner, Eliot combines symbolism with a historically precise setting to create a tale of love and hope. This novel explores the issues of redemptive love, the notion of community, the role of religion, and the status of the gentry and family. While religion and religious devotion play a strong part in this text, Eliot concerns herself with matters of ethics, and it is clear that for her, ethics exist apart from religion. On the surface, the book has a strong moral tract; the bad character, Dunstan Cass, gets his just deserts, while the pitiable character, Silas Marner, is ultimately richly rewarded, and his miserliness corrected. Eliot’s text includes several pointed criticisms of organized religion, the role of the gentry, and the negative impacts of industrialisation.
This book was selected because:
It appealed to everyone at the last Book Club. The Kindle Edition of this book is free on Amazon.com.
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