God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her and He looks upon her as mine: you've
no right to her! Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years
before the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone 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
girl 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 an unsentimental but affectionate
portrait of rural life.
