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Silas Marner
by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819 - 1880)

Type of Work:

Symbolic, life drama

Setting

English village of Raveloe; early nineteenth century

Principal Characters

Silas Marner, a lonely and miserly linen-weaver
Godfrey Cass, an insensitive, yet charming, young man
Dunstan Cass, Godfrey's opportunistic brother
Squire Cass, Godfrey and Dunstan's lewd, dull-witted father
Eppie, an abandoned little girl