Author(s): George Eliot

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After Being falsely accused of a crime by his dearest friend, Silas Marner moves to the village of Raveloe, where he buries his heart and his past in one consuming passion-gold. All day, every day, Silas sits at his loom and weaves, earning the coins whose familiar faces are the only friends he has. It seems that nothing can draw the miser out of his self imposed gloom until a cold, snowy New Year's Eve,when a young mother dies near Silas's cottage, leaving her little daughter alone in the world