num_pages: 160
description: Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of YorkAlthough 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.
language: English
title: Silas Marner
titlecomplete: Silas Marner
characters: Priscilla Lammeter, Dunstan Cass, Eppie, Godfrey Cass, William Dane, Silas Marner, Aaron Winthrop, Squire Cass, Nancy Lammeter, Dolly Winthrop
genres: Literature, Novels, School, Victorian, 19th Century, Classics, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 84996
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd