Silas Marner

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.