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Silas Marner

George Eliot, John O'Connor and others

  • 241 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1861
  • 628 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

Eliot's touching novel of a miser and a little child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. The gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the town of Raveloe after being falsely accused of a heinous theft. There he begins to find redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child he discovers in his isolated cottage.

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  • Country life
  • Happiness
  • Classics
  • Family life
  • Social life and customs
  • Foundlings
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Pastoral fiction

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3 About George Eliot

1819–1880

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

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