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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic™ includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Eliot's subtle themes and language. Silas Marner, which first appeared in 1861, is a tale about life, love, and the need to belong. Accused of a crime he didn't... read more
First Sentence
IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak—there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid, undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
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- George Eliot (Author)
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