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Silas Marner
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Silas Marner (1861) (edit title/settings)

by George Eliot (Author) (edit contributors)

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Gentle linen weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous theft, and he exiles himself from the world-until he finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day at his isolated cottage. Somber, yet hopeful, Eliot's... read more

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"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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Introduction

Part One:
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV

Part Two:
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapater XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Conclusion

Selected Biography

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This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 184 of 200 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)
This book is in Readers Digest Press. (publisher edition list)
This is book 53 of 101 in Penguin English Library. (publisher series)
This is book 875 of 1286 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons
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Publication Date: 1861
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Page Count: 364

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