Gentle linen weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous theft, and he exiles himself from the world-until he finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned
George Eliot's final novel is an extraordinary, tender examination of two very different livesA beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and
Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of Raveloe, Silas Marner's sole pleasure is to count his growing hoard of
