When I tell you this is a Victorian novel, I know what you will think: ugh. But this is more than just a long, boring Victorian novel. This is a poignant story with the sophisticated phrases required to make it Victorian.
Silas Marner has been betrayed by his best friend, and accused of killing a pastor and stealing the church's money, which he would never do. Silas suffers from catalepsy, a form of Epilepsy that sends one into a sudden trance, in which they notice nothing and stay completely still.
Back in the day, uneducated people thought that Silas was possessed by the devil, and many took advantage of him. Silas ends up fleeing his old village and finding a new one, where he is shunned and widely afraid of. He becomes a miser, and, through a complicated plot, his gold is stolen from him, only to be replaced with a little girl. Read the book to find out how this little girl changes the way he looks at life.
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