Silas Marner

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.