Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover
• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket
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Blurb: “A handsome vintage hardback bringing together two of George Eliot’s most beloved works, showcasing her deep moral insight and compassionate realism.
Scenes of Clerical Life introduces Eliot’s gift for portraying ordinary lives with extraordinary depth, quiet English villages, flawed clergy, and the emotional undercurrents that shape faith, duty, and redemption. These early stories laid the groundwork for her reputation as one of the great novelists of the 19th century.
Silas Marner, perhaps her most enduring novel, tells the moving story of a reclusive weaver whose life of isolation and loss is transformed by unexpected love. It’s a timeless meditation on community, forgiveness, and the quiet power of human connection.
Bound in textured cloth with classic spine titling, this volume shows its age gracefully and remains solid and readable, an excellent shelf copy for readers of Victorian literature or collectors of early 20th-century editions.
A thoughtful, substantial edition that captures George Eliot at her most humane and enduring.”