OPIS
Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. While the village celebrates Christmas and New Year, two apparently inexplicable events occur: Silas loses his gold and finds a child on his hearth. This new edition, which is based on the carefully corrected text George Eliot prepared a few months after the first edition, is accompanied by an Introduction which illuminates the intellectual context of what has often been presented as a nostalgic, sentimental tale.