Silas marner ecaf George Eliot

Silas is the friendless miserly weaver who lives by himself in a small cottage near the village of Raveloe in the heart of the English countryside. Nobody in the village knows anything about his strange past. The very sight of him terrifies the local children. His life and those of his neighbours become entwined through a series of extraordinary events in which a small child plays a very central part.

Silas Marner tells a story that has long been the favourite among George Eliots novels. A great trasure of beauty and humanity ... were the words with which Henry James described the work.