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At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito. Her husband's duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values, and she must break away to find her own path in life. Described by Eliot as \"written with my best blood,\" \u003ci\u003eRomola\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling portrayal of a Utopian heroine, played out against a turbulent historical backdrop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her introduction, Dorothea Barrett examines Eliot's life and literary career, and issues of gender, language and history. 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Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of Eppie, the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.   This text uses the Cabinet edition, revised by George Eliot in 1878. David Carroll's introduction is complemented by the original Penguin Classics edition introduction by Q.D. Leavis.   Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator, and later editor, of the Westminster Review. 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