Silas Marner<\/i> by George Eliot<\/p>\n
I’m working my way through the Eliot oeuvre courtesy of Gutenberg.org. <\/p>\n
Silas<\/i> is a short, simple work, but well-written and enjoyable. Silas Marner is a weaver who moves to a new land and ostracizes himself from most human contact after being jilted in love. He remains focused on his work and increasing wealth until a robbery forces him out of his hermitage. <\/p>\n
Middlemarch<\/i> was primarily a story of the upper class (as is all of Jane Austen’s work), so it is refreshing to delve deeper into the lives of more common folk of the era.<\/p>\n
I note that Gutenberg has a Spanish language version… there’s a lot of dialect in this book; I wonder how they handle it in translation.<\/p>\n
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Aside from a Palm Z22 filled with Eliot, I’ve got The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America<\/i> by David Hajdu and A User’s Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain<\/i> by John J. Ratey lined up for vacation reading.<\/p>\n
Also, Diez Comedias Del Siglo De Oro<\/i> should I feel compelled to really exercise the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Silas Marner by George Eliot I’m working my way through the Eliot oeuvre courtesy of Gutenberg.org. Silas is a short, simple work, but well-written and enjoyable. Silas Marner is a weaver who moves to a new land and ostracizes himself … Continue reading