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Although the shortest of George Eliot’s novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner-a handloom linen weaver of Ravelone in the agricultural heartland of England-and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world which holds the reader’s attention until the last page as Eppie’s bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.
