num_pages: 192
description: In this heartwarming classic by George Eliot, a gentle linen weaver named Silas Marner is wrongly accused of theft actually committed by his best friend. Exiling himself to the rustic village of Raveloe, he becomes a lonely recluse. Ultimately, Marner finds spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love of an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day in his isolated cottage.Somber, yet hopeful, Eliot's realistic depiction of an irretrievable past, tempered with the magical elements of myth and fairy tale, remains timeless in its understanding of human nature and is beloved by every generation.
  With an Introduction by Frederick R. Karland a New Afterword by Kathryn Hughes

language: English
title: Silas Marner
titlecomplete: Silas Marner
characters: Silas Marner, Squire Cass, Godfrey Cass, Dunstan Cass, Priscilla Lammeter, Nancy Lammeter, William Dane, Dolly Winthrop, Eppie, Aaron Winthrop
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 84967
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Signet