My Favourite Book

English Essay on "My Favourite Book"

The book I like most is Silas Marner. It is a short novel written by George Eliot. It is a very interesting novel with a simple but powerful story. The story is told in an excellent manner. I found it absorbing’ and fascinating. I have read quite a number of novels but none is better than this.



It is the story of a poor linen-weaver, Silas Marner. He was a pious and simple young man and lived in Lantern Yard. He lived by honest hard work and performed his religious duties with great devotion. People respected him. He had a close friend, William Dane. He was engaged to a girl named Sarah. He was happy and contented, for he had all he needed. But his happiness was short lived.4essays.blogspot.com His friend Dane fell in love with Sarah. He accused Marner of theft. People in those days believed that by drawing lots they could find out the truth. They drew lots. Unfortunately, Marner was found to have stolen the money. In fact, he had not stolen anything. It was Dane who had cunningly involved him in this case.



Silas Marner was very angry and shocked. He had believed in a just God. Now he thought that God was not just. In his grief, he left Lantern Yard. He went to a village, Raveloe, and settled there. There, he worked hard at his loom. In fifteen years he horded a lot of gold coins. He did not like to mix with the people. He hated ‘his fellow beings, because William Dane had betrayed him. He cared only for gold. There was no other interest in his life. He ‘had banished love, friendship and kindness from his heart.



One night his gold was stolen. He went mad with grief Now, he had nothing to live for. His heart was broken. A few days after this, he found a golden-haired little girl. Marner’s heart went out in sympathy and love to that little girl. No one claimed her. So Marner adopted her. Marrer named her Epee after his dead sister. This girl changed the whole life of Marner. He became a loving, kind and generoust man. He looked after the child with the loving care of a kind father. He brought her up affectionately and tenderly. Now he had a purpose in life.



It was Eppie’s welfare. His belief in man and God was reestablished. When Eppie became a young woman, Squire Godfrey, Eppie’s real father, acknowledged her as his daughter. He wished to take bet to his home. But Eppie had, by now, come to love Marner a her father. She did not like to leave him flow. She refused to go to the home of her real father who had not acknowledge her all these years. Marner felt very happy and proud. -us love and kindness was repaid. Eppie was married to a young man Aaron who promised to live with Marner.

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