Silas Marner; Gateway Series - Van Dyke

NY: American Book Company, 1903. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood. 4.5"x6.5"x1". 336 pages. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Writings in pencil on first & last fly paper. Notations throughout. Cover slightly soiled. Edge rubs and wear w minor fraying. Edges dust stained. Gateway emblem on back. Original title page included in introduction. This edition edited by Wilbur Lucius Cross, Ph.d. Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Spine straight, binding tight, not x-library. "George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner.
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of Eppie, the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life." Goodreads.