A reading circle that discusses George Eliot's classic novel Silas Marner, first published in 1861. The story follows Silas, a lonely weaver who is shunned in a 19th-century English village after being wrongly accused of theft by his best friend.
After losing his friends, his faith and his fiancée, Silas moves away to start over. Years later, a young girl wanders into his home after her mother dies in the snow outside, and Silas takes her in, naming her Eppie. The rest of his life becomes devoted to making her happy.
