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George Eliot tops this list.(What's your favorite book? The scoop on your favorite reads)(Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe)
From: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Date: 20080101
Author:Gillund, Mel
I have read many, many books in my lifetime, but my favorite is Silas Marner--The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot. George Eliot is a pseudonym for Marion Evans Cross (1819-1880). The story was written ca. 1860. It's a compact volume of about 235 pages that I can easily slip into my luggage and take along on trips. I have read it many times.
It's the story of a weaver of linen who occupies a former stone cutter's cottage on the edge of an old quarry near the fictitious village of Raveloe, England. Silas Marner is a lonely man who weaves cloth for the wealthy ladies of ...
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