George Eliot
Silas Marner
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664155160
Table of Contents
PART ONE
| CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV |
| CHAPTER V | CHAPTER VI | CHAPTER VII | CHAPTER VIII |
| CHAPTER IX | CHAPTER X | CHAPTER XI | CHAPTER XII |
| CHAPTER XIII | CHAPTER XIV | CHAPTER XV |
PART TWO
| CHAPTER XVI | CHAPTER XVII | CHAPTER XVIII | CHAPTER XIX | |
| CHAPTER XX | CHAPTER XXI | CONCLUSION |
PART ONE
CHAPTER I
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 to believe that the bag held nothing