Silas Marner

Silas Marner is a weaver who knows his craft perfectly. He has experienced many hardships in life: unfair condemnation, betrayal, disappointment in society, loss of fortune. It seems that nothing can restore his faith in people, but a little orphaned girl changes everything.

George Eliot (real name - Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) is one of the most prominent writers of the Victorian era, a master of the realistic novel and deep psychological analysis of characters. She was born on November 22, 1819 in picturesque Warwickshire. After the death of her mother, she left her studies to help her father, but this period became a time of intensive self-study for her. Later, she worked as an editor, translator and literary critic before venturing into her own prose. To ensure her novels were taken seriously in the literary world of the time, she took a male pseudonym. This is how George Eliot was born, whose books are still read and reinterpreted today.