Silas Marner - Large Print Author:George Eliot Silas Marner was a lonely weaver-for fifteen years, a man without friends in Raveloe. He had just one pleasure. Since coming to the town, he'd buried his hard-earned gold coins under his floor. At night, he would dig them up and run them through his hands. — But in that fifteenth year, a tiny foundling entered Silas Marner's miserly world... more »-and with her, a happiness that would dramatically change not only his life but the lives of the people of Raveloe. . .« less