Silas Marner

Embittered by false accusation and imposters, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of nineteenth century England "in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses" and of a simple way of life that was fast disappearing...... George Eliot's tale where love transforms the hardest of hearts, where love replaces bitterness. Enough said.