But his happiness is threatened when the orphan’s real father comes to claim the girl as his own, and Silas must face losing a treasure greater than all the gold in the world. As Silas grows to love the girl as if she were his own daughter, his life changes into something precious. Then one dark evening, a beautiful, golden-haired child, lost and seeing the light from Silas’s cottage, toddles in through his doorway. Taking refuge in his work, Silas slowly begins to accumulate gold-his only joy in life-until one day that too is stolen from him. Embittered and alienated from his fellow man, he moves to the village of Raveloe, where he becomes a weaver. The story opens as Silas Marner, falsely accused of theft, loses everything, including his faith in God. George Eliot’s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man’s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of the family.
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