Silas Marner

A New Favorite

(4.5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

The reader is phenomenal. One of the best librovox has to offer. It was actually the fact that he was reading which enticed me to listen. However the book itself is a splendid work. The style is similar to Charles Dickens. It does start off slow, but it gets more and more interesting as the book good on. I would definitely recommend

Very good!

(5 stars)

TwinkieToes

Tadhg is a masterful reader. The story is very good. Silas becomes a miser, simply because it's the only thing he has that he can care about. But his world is turned upside down twice: once when his most beloved is taken from him, and then when he is given another, better beloved. The side story about the two brothers is also masterful. Highly recommended!

(5 stars)

Chandini

Tadhg could make even the most boring book interesting. He obviously understands, and what's more impressive, emotes with the text. Silas Marner is an enjoyable simple book but Tadgh is what really brings it to life.

A unique vision of parenthood

(5 stars)

Nicholas Bernhard

This audiobook earns the descriptor "melodic". The narrator brings the words of George Eliot to life with sweet, colorful brogue. Silas Marner offers more than the expected pastoral imagery and sentimentality. In comparing the fundamentalist church of Silas's youth, and the simple solidarity of his newfound Raveloe life, Eliot offers two different visions of religion. The ending confrontation offers a powerful argument for what makes a parent, tying it closer to the bonds of nurture than of blood. All of this shines through in the narration, which is boosted by a clean recording. Another strong effort from a LibriVox volunteer.

Beautifully read

(5 stars)

Barbara

This book was required reading when I was a high school student. I found it dull and boring. What a shame that such great literature is wasted on the youth! Forty years later, after finding a few very poignant and profound quotes of George Elliot in a little devotional book I was reading, I decided to give Silas Marner another try. So glad I did.

A wonderful story, beautifully read!

(5 stars)

VRRCR

George Eliot is such an extraordinary writer! although the story starts a little slowly, it develops to become a wonderfully involving narrative of human frailty, malleability, love, dependence and strength. She does not indulge in the predictable dramatic turns, but instead allows the characters to lead the story. this story will stay with me for a long time. The reader is wonderful! Although he is Irish, and reads with an Irish accent, and the story is set somewhere in England his accent works beautifully. He reads with consummate skill and the ease of a trained professional. Cannot rate the book or the reader highly enough!

a tad insubstantial

(4 stars)

Fleur

a nice story with an interesting start that ultimately fizzles out. there’s threads begun - silas’ wanting his name cleared, godfrey’s wanting to adopt, william being a liar and thief, which had the potential to be really interesting and messy but don’t really go anywhere. silas’s relationship with eppie is very sweet. i felt very bad for molly, whose life ends with no justice. there’s a rather heartless depiction of the death of the horse Wildfire, but overall it was enjoyable book

An absolute delight!

(5 stars)

Moira Kepinska

Mr Hynes reads this wonderful story with such ease and fluidity! His soft Irish brogue and clear diction make it hard to break off listening, even when other pressing matters might be calling for attention. I will seek out his other readings with eager anticipation. Thank you LibriVox and Mr Hynes.