Silas Marner
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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 fier…
Details
- AuthorGeorge Eliot
- SourceProject Gutenberg #550
- Length72,026 words · 4h 48m of reading
- Chapters23
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
23 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01The Weaver of Raveloe
- 02CHAPTER I.
- 03CHAPTER II.
- 04CHAPTER III.
- 05CHAPTER IV.
- 06CHAPTER V.
- 07CHAPTER VI.
- 08CHAPTER VII.
- 09CHAPTER VIII.
- 10CHAPTER IX.
- 11CHAPTER X.
- 12CHAPTER XI.
- 13CHAPTER XII.
- 14CHAPTER XIII.
- 15CHAPTER XIV.
- 16CHAPTER XV.
- 17CHAPTER XVI.
- 18CHAPTER XVII.
- 19CHAPTER XVIII.
- 20CHAPTER XIX.
- 21CHAPTER XX.
- 22CHAPTER XXI.
- 23CONCLUSION
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