A Marcus Rashford Book Club Choice! Silas and the Marvellous Misfits by Tom Percival is an action-packed adventure that shows kids the joy of being themselves.'Engaging and action packed. I would have loved this book as a child!' – Marcus Rashford MBEErika has a BIG secret. She’s a member of the Dream Defenders – a top-secret organization that banishes your worries while you sleep!And tonight they're on a mission to rescue Erika's best friend Silas from the clutches of the evil Glooms – creatures who want everyone in the dream world to look and think exactly the same way!Can the Dream Defenders save Silas and help him to see that being a misfit can be a truly marvellous thing?Discover more of the Dream Defenders adventures in Erika and the Angermare and Chanda and the Devious Doubt. The Marcus Rashford Book Club is a collaboration between Marcus Rashford and Macmillan Children's Books, inspiring children to develop a love of reading and literacy as a life skill.
El se or Silas Marner, un bondadoso tejedor, es acusado de un robo abyecto cometido por su mejor amigo, lo que le obliga a exiliarse de su comunidad. Se instala en Raveloe, un pueblo apartado, en donde se convierte en un solitario y hura o avariento cuya existencia se reduce al trabajo en el telar y a acumular un tesoro en monedas de oro y plata.Dos sucesos inesperados cambiar n su amarga monoton a: el robo de su dinero y la s bita aparici n en su casa de una ni a hu rfana. El destino de ambos se ver ligado al de GodfreyCass, el hijo del terrateniente local, quien, al igual que SilasMarner, est atrapado por su pasado.SilasMarner fue la novela preferida de George Eliot y uno de los relatos cl sicos que m s han reconfortado a sucesivas generaciones de lectores.
Silas Marner es un hombre desdichado que, tras un desenga o amoroso y social, huye de su ciudad y se instala como tejedor en el pueblo de Raveloe, donde lleva una vida tranquila, aunque solitaria y desarraigada, dedic ndose en cuerpo y alma a trabajar y acumular dinero. Un buen d a sus ahorros desaparecen y, poco despu s, como si se tratara de un trueque del destino, aparece una ni a abandonada a la que adopta.Los cuidados que le procura y su educaci n cambiar n su vida.Esta historia, admirada por Henry James, Virginia Wolf y la propia reina Victoria, fue considerada por la cr tica como una verdadera obra maestra y recrea magistralmente tanto la Inglaterra rural de la poca como los entresijos del coraz n humanoSilas Marner es la tercera novela de George Eliot, publicada en 1861. Un sencilla historia de un tejedor de lino, que se caracteriza por su fuerte realismo y el tratamiento sofisticada de una variedad de temas que van desde la religi n a la industrializaci n de comunidad.La novela est ambientada en los primeros a os del siglo XIX. Silas Marner, tejedor, es miembro de una peque a congregaci n calvinista en la linterna Yard, una calle barrio pobre en una ciudad sin nombre en el norte de Inglaterra. Falsamente se le acusa de robar fondos de la congregaci n mientras se ve sobre el di cono muy enfermo. Se dan pistas Dos Tukar Silas: un cuchillo de bolsillo y el descubrimiento en su propia casa antes de la bolsa que conten a el dinero. Existe la fuerte sugerencia de que el mejor amigo de Silas, William Dane, lo ha involucrado, ya Silas hab a prestado su navaja a William, poco antes de que se cometi el crimen. Silas se proclam culpable. La mujer con la que iba a casarse rompe su compromiso y m s tarde se casa con William. Con su vida destrozada y su coraz n roto, Silas deja la linterna Yard y la ciudad.Marner viaja al sur de la regi n central y se instala cerca de la aldea rural de Raveloe, donde vive solo, con s lo el m nimo contacto con los residentes. l viene a adorar el oro que gana y hordas de su tejido.El oro es robado por Dunstan ("Dunsey") Cass, un hijo m s joven disoluto de Squire Cass, llevando terrateniente del pueblo. Silas se hunde en una profunda tristeza, a pesar de los intentos de los aldeanos que le ayuden. Dunsey desaparece, pero poco se hace de este comportamiento no es raro, y no hay asociaci n alguna entre l y el robo....
The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues are given against Silas: a pocket knife, and the discovery in his own house of the bag formerly containing the money. There is the strong suggestion that Silas' best friend, William Dane, has framed him, since Silas had lent his pocket knife to William shortly before the crime was committed. Silas is proclaimed guilty. The woman Silas was to marry breaks their engagement and later marries William. With his life shattered and his heart broken, Silas leaves Lantern Yard and the city.Marner travels south to the Midlands and settles near the rural village of Raveloe, where he lives alone, choosing to have only minimal contact with the residents. He comes to adore the gold he earns and hoards from his weaving.The gold is stolen by Dunstan ("Dunsey") Cass, a dissolute younger son of Squire Cass, the town's leading landowner. Silas sinks into a deep gloom, despite the villagers' attempts to aid him. Dunsey disappears, but little is made of this not unusual behaviour, and no association is made between him and the theft.Godfrey Cass, Dunsey's elder brother, also harbours a secret. He is married to, but estranged from, Molly Farren, an opium-addicted woman of low birth living in another town. This secret prevents Godfrey from marrying Nancy Lammeter, a young woman of high social and moral standing. On a winter's night, Molly tries to make her way to Squire Cass's New Year's Eve party with her two-year-old girl to announce that she is Godfrey's wife and ruin him. On the way, she takes opium and lies down in the snow. The child wanders away and into Silas' house. Silas follows her tracks in the snow and discovers the woman dead. When he goes to the party for help, Godfrey heads to the scene, but resolves to tell no one that Molly was his wife. Molly's death conveniently puts an end to the marriage.
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled by community of Lantern Yard, Silas Marner settles in the village of Raveloe, living as a recluse and caring only for work and money. Bitter and unhappy, Silas' circumstances change when an orphaned child, actually the unaknowledged child of Godfrey Cass, eldest son of the local squire, is left in his care.
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with prominent short-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience, but for the villagers near whom he had come to settle it had mysterious peculiarities which corresponded with the exceptional nature of his occupation, and his advent from an unknown region called "North'ard".
