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Falsely accused of a crime and betrayed by his closet friend, the weaver Silas Marner has been hoarding his earnings for fifteen years. Distanced from his religious community, he has devoted himself to his work and taken pleasure only in counting his coins. Then, on the same day, his gold is stolen and a lovely child appears on his doorstep. As he changes his life to meet the irresistible needs of the child, Marner accepts the loss of the gold as a necessary to what he gains. A living, shining treasure replaces his hollow material wealth, reawakening his humanity and helping him to rediscover a place among his fellow man. Many years later, when circumstances reveal the now-grown child's true identity, the strength of the bond that has flourished between her and the old man proves stronger that the attractions of wealth. A novel of simple, unsentimental charm, Silas Marner is a model of humane and artistic integrity, illuminated by a clear, economical prose style-a classic beloved by readers and scholars alike.

GEORGE ELIOT Daughter of a Warwicksire farm manager, Mary Ann Evans was strongly influenced by pious teaching throughout her childhood and early life, but in her early twenties she developed an independence of mind and spirit that made her a controversial figure later in life. Between 1850 and 1853, as assistant editor of the Westminster Review, she met many prominent literary figures, including George Henry Lewes, a versatile writer who had published a popular history of philosophy. Shocking to their contemporaries including Queen Victoria, the liaison between Lewes, a married man who was separated from his wife, and Marian (as she now called herself) Evans continued until his death in 1878.