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"Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside, but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken."
After being wrongly branded a thief, Silas Marner loses both his fiancรฉe and his faith. Driven from the religious community where his reputation is so besmirched, the embittered Silas settles in Raveloe, where he leads a reclusive life as a weaver.
For fifteen years he contents himself with toiling tirelessly at his loom. His dealings with the folk of Raveloe are purely mercantile; his sole pleasure lies in counting the gold coins his industry brings. When his hoard is stolen, Silas is inconsolably bereft, but just as a cruel twist of fate precipitated his downward spiral, so Providence delivers an unexpected blessing that proves to be his salvation. ISBN:9781908533722
