This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Silas Marner" by George Eliot.
"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon he
r as mine: you've no right to her!" Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a r
eligious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives a
lone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when
his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is
given the chance to transform his life.
His fate, and that of the little gir
l he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like
Silas, is trapped by his past. "Silas Marner", George Eliot's favourite of her
novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create a
n unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life. "The Penguin English Li
brary" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth centur
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