Driven from his chapel at Lantern Yard by a false charge of theft, the linen-weaver Silas Marner settles in the village of Raveloe and lives for nothing but the guineas he hoards. When his gold is stolen and a small girl wanders in from the snow to his fireside, the lonely man and the squire’s troubled son Godfrey Cass are both drawn into her story.
Eliot’s shortest full novel, and the easiest way into her moral wisdom and rural comedy. Download the free EPUB.