Silas Marner
READING AGE 16+
The Weaver of Raveloe.
(1861)
Exiled by superstition and betrayal from Lantern Yard, and cut off from faith and human love, for fifteen years the solitary simple-hearted weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom in Raveloe and devoted himself to the amassing of a hoard of golden guineas. Silas's chance of redemption, when it appears one New Year's Eve, is intimately connected with the fate of Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire. Clandestinely married, then blacked by his dissolute brother Dunstan, Godfrey like Silas has been trapped by his past, from which he is seeking to escape. Humorous, richly symbolic, subtly characterized and meticulously plotted, George Eliot's 'sudden inspiration' in this slim novel of rural England cut across her plans for Romola, her vast Italian Renaissance epic.
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Silas marner is about a man you was framed by his best friend. He was accused of robbing money from the church. He left his home town and went to a new one where he becomes the medicine man and makes a lot of money. His money was stolen fron him one night while he was out and the town tries to help him. One day a little girl finds his house and after discovering that her mother is dead he takes her in. 16 years later he goes back to his home town to clear his name.--Submitted by Jonathan Murphy.
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"Eppie, there's a thing I've had on my mind to do this two year, and now the money's been brought back to us, we can do it. I've been turning it over and over in the night, and I think we'll set out to-morrow, while the fine days last. We'll leave the house and everything for your godmother to take care on, and we'll make a little bundle o' thin……
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