Silas Marner

Silas Marner lives his life in ruins. Betrayed by the one person he trusted and cast out from his church on a false accusation, he retreats to the remote village of Raveloe, where he becomes a幽灵, a ghost in his own life. Alone in his cottage, weaving at his loom, he hoards gold not out of greed but because it is the only steady thing in a world that has proven violently unreliable. Then the gold vanishes, stolen in the night, and Silas is left with nothing but an empty hearth and the ruins of his solitary existence. What saves him is not gold but something far more dangerous: a child. A little girl wanders into his cottage one New Year's Eve, and Silas must learn, late and terribly, that love is the only wealth that cannot be stolen. Eliot's 1861 masterpiece is a quiet earthquake, a novel about what it means to be human when the world has declared you expendable. It aches with tenderness and earns every tear.