George Eliot (1819-1880), Silas Marner (織工馬南傳), 梁實秋譯,
“How can a writer make goodness interesting? George Eliot tried to do so by examining redemption in Silas Marner … But where are the unheroic, sane, consistent, quiet goodnesses? As literature thrives on conflict, the idea of a sequestered, sanguine goodness might seem impossible.”
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