Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the
weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . .
and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it
from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came
from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that
permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the
redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early
nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the
farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.