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Eliot's Silas Marner (Cliffs Notes)

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These cliff notes help explain the content and plot of book. The book is hard to read and grasp.

I am an English student and in literature class one of the books we worked with was Silas Marner by George Eliot. I used Cliffs Notes to study for the finals and found it very useful.

In the beginning of the book there is a short biography of the author, followed by a brief synopsis of the novel as well as a list of the characters. After that, the book offers a brief summary of every chapter and afterwards it analyzes the most important parts of each chapter, with reference to certain words or phrases from the novel. In the end of the book, there are character analyses and a critical analysis of the whole novel.

The book is easy to read and easy to follow, as well as time saving, since you don't have to read all of the original - just the important parts. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is doing Silas Marner at school or university. Needless to say that Cliffs Notes is directed to students and not to people who are just interesting in reading this work of fiction.

If you do not have to read this book, don't. It is very difficult to understand and catch on to, especially because of the slow plot build-up and the overall slowness of the book. It has a nice meaning to it but hard to understand because of the way the author words things.

I will admit that maybe the first chapter was not the easiest to understand, but it still wasn't slow. I definantly recommend reading this book.