Silas Marner (Annotated)

Silas Marner (1861) is George Eliot's compact yet profound fable of loss, exile, moral renewal, and communal belonging. Set in the Midlands village of Raveloe, the novel contrasts the weaver's alienated, mechanized life with the organic rhythms of rural society. Its lucid realism is enriched by symbolic patterning—gold, hearth, child, and loom—placing it between Victorian social fiction and moral ...