Silas Marner

Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. Although the shortest of George Eliot s novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader s attention until the last page as Eppie s bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.