... tale? Some people say "yes", while some say it is a novel with the memories of its writer, George Eliot's early days. "Silas Marner" opens with an overview of the society where Eliot's story took place. The setting is in the English countryside in which she described general characters, such as farmers and workers in a very elaborate way ... because she grew up in countryside. She described the hermit-like lifestyle of people there like Silas Marner, who she joked, "looked like the remnants of a disinherited race". The novel ... of not telling lies, like the famous story of Pinocchio; ...

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• Grade Level: High School