Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her
most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled
Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural
heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of
the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and
repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention
until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the
test.