{"product_id":"9781285847047","title":"Reading Explorer 5 - Text Only","description":"Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Germanistik und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft), course: Europäischer Realismus, language: English, abstract: George Eliot's Silas Marner, \"that charming minor master piece\" (in Eliot 252) as F. R. Lewis calls it, was published in 1861 by John Blackwood. Her publisher explains: \"Silas Marner sprang from her childish recollection of a man with a stoop and an expression of face that led her to think that he was an alien from his fellows\" (Eliot VII). This man was a weaver like Silas Marner. In making him the protagonist of her novel, George Eliot emphasizes his strangeness by adding short-sightedness and cataleptic fits to set him off from the people around him. The difficult process of this outsider's integration into society is the theme of the novel...","brand":"Cengage Learning","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053959266544,"sku":"9781285847047","price":51.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781285847047_p0.jpg?v=1763705648","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781285847047","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}