Silas Marner

George Eliot’s novel of Silas Marner, a linen-weaver driven from his chapel by a false charge of theft, who lives as a lonely miser in the village of Raveloe until a little child wanders into his cottage.

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Famous quotes

• Every man’s work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

  Part I, Chapter IIIn context

  • Work

• The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature

  Part I, Chapter IIIIn context

  • Good & Evil

• It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

  Part I, Chapter XIIIn context

  • Emotion

• In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.

  Part I, Chapter XIVIn context

  • Children
  • Hope

Contents

Part I

1. Chapter I
2. Chapter II
3. Chapter III
4. Chapter IV
5. Chapter V
6. Chapter VI
7. Chapter VII
8. Chapter VIII
9. Chapter IX
10. Chapter X
11. Chapter XI
12. Chapter XII
13. Chapter XIII
14. Chapter XIV
15. Chapter XV

Part II

1. Chapter XVI
2. Chapter XVII
3. Chapter XVIII
4. Chapter XIX
5. Chapter XX
6. Chapter XXI
7. Conclusion