# Silas Marner

Author: Eliot, George, 1819-1880

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/550

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Silas+Marner+Eliot&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak—there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race. The shepherd’s dog barked fiercely when one of these alien-looking men appeared on the upland, dark against the early winter sunset; for what dog likes a figure bent under a heavy bag?—and these pale men rarely stirred abroad without that mysterious burden. The shepherd himself, though he had good reason t...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/silas-marner-550/chapters/15/index.md)