190 pages
English language
Published July 18, 1998 by Oxford University Press.
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Adopted children -- Fiction
- Foundlings -- Fiction
- Weavers -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction