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Silas Marner

Silas Marner

George Eliot, John O'Connor, Mary Anne Evans, Hugh Thomson, Julius Frese · 1800 · 241 pages

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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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