Silas Marner

George Eliot

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A weaver cast out of his community hoards gold for fifteen years, until the gold vanishes and a child appears in its place.

Mary Ann Evans, who signed as George Eliot (1819–1880), wrote English provincial life with unmatched moral intelligence.

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