It came to me first of all, quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary
tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early
childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back; but, as my
mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic
treatment. Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver
is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web
and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire,
contracts a secret marriage. While the village celebrates Christmas
and New Year, two apparently inexplicable events occur: Silas loses
his gold and finds a child on his hearth. The imaginative control
George Eliot displays as her narrative gradually reveals causes and
connections has rarely been surpassed. Silas Marner (1861) is the
shortest and most immediately accessible of Eliot's novels. She
takes the materials of legend and fairy tale and provides them with
a historically precise setting, drawing on some of the most
advanced ideas of her day in order to represent states of mind and
belief at the limits of rational perception. This edition, which is
based on the carefully corrected text George Eliot prepared a few
months after the first edition, is accompanied by an introduction
which illuminates the intellectual context of what has often been
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