Gentle Linen Weaver Silas Marner Is Wrongly Accused Of A Heinous Theft, And He Exiles Himself From The World - Until He Finds Redemption And Spiritual Rebirth Through His Unselfish Love For An Abandoned Child Who Mysteriously Appears One Day At His Isolated Cottage. Paperback , Penguin Popular Classics , 221 Pages Published 1994 By Penguin Books, Limited (UK) (first Published 1861)