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Silas Marner. The lifted veil. Brother Jacob.

Title
  1. Silas Marner. The lifted veil. Brother Jacob.
Published by
  1. Edinburgh, etc., W. Blackwood and sons [18- ]
Author
  1. Eliot, George, 1819-1880

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  1. Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
Description
  1. 408 p.
Summary
  1. Silas Marner: A young linen weaver's dreams are destroyed when he is falsely accused of a crime. Isolating himself, he becomes a selfish, despondent miser until he adopts an abandoned child.
  2. The lifted veil: The unreliable narrator, Latimer, believes that he is cursed with an otherworldly ability to see into the future and the thoughts of other people. His unwanted "gift" seems to stem from a severe childhood illness he suffered while attending school in Geneva. Latimer is convinced of the existence of this power, and his two initial predictions do come true the way he has envisioned them: a peculiar "patch of rainbow light on the pavement" and a few words of dialogue appear to him exactly as expected. Latimer is revolted by much of what he discerns about others' motivations. Latimer becomes fascinated with Bertha, his brother's cold and coquettish fiancée, because her mind and motives remain atypically closed to him. After his brother's death, Latimer marries Bertha, but the marriage disintegrates as he recognizes Bertha's manipulative and untrustworthy nature. Latimer's friend, scientist Charles Meunier, performs a blood transfusion from himself to Bertha's recently deceased maid. For a few moments the maid comes back to life and accuses Bertha of a plot to poison Latimer. Bertha flees and Latimer soon dies as he had himself foretold at the start of the narrative.
  3. Brother Jacob is Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading. Revealing Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them and the boundaries of art and the self.
Series statement
  1. Her Works. Standard ed.
Subject
  1. Fiction
  2. England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
  3. English fiction > 19th century
  4. Man-woman relationships > Fiction
  5. Weavers > Fiction
  6. Foundlings > Fiction
  7. Adopted children > Fiction
  8. Fathers and daughters > Fiction
  9. 1800-1899
Genre/Form
  1. Fiction
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain