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Silas MarnerOn the coverThe Angelus, Jean-François Millet, 1857–1859
Silas Marner
A lonely, miserly weaver, cast out and robbed of his hoarded gold, has his life transformed when a golden-haired orphan wanders to his hearth one winter night. A short, tender fable of loss, love, and belonging.
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The most fairy-tale-like of Eliot's novels, short, warm, and quietly profound, about how a closed heart is opened by love. A perfect introduction to a great and serious writer.
SettingRural England, early 1800s
A rural English village at the turn of the nineteenth century, close-knit and wary of outsiders, where chapel and superstition mingle and a stranger with an odd trade is watched with suspicious eyes.