Excerpt from Silas Marner The story of Silas Marner is oii the whole better suited than any other of George Eliot's novels, for school use. But in spiteof its excellent qualities there are two features of the story in its complete form which are usually found to be a source of difficulty to both teachers and pupils. In the first place it is a psychological study, and many of the passages in the story are _too mature even for pupils of the High School age. And furthermore, parts of the story in its original form contain an element of coarseness to which the teacher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.