• English Literature
• Novels

• Type: Novel
• Length: 262 pages

Silas Marner is a 1861 novel by English author Mary Ann Evans using her pen name George Eliot. - AsNotedIn

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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• England, United Kingdom Marner was highly thought of in that little hidden world, known to itself as the church assembling in Lantern Yard (fictional).
• Warwickshire, England In the early years of this century, such a linen-weaver, named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe (fictional), and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit.