A miserly, embittered linen-weaver, exiled and robbed of his gold, is redeemed when he adopts an orphaned golden-haired child who wanders into his cottage.
Books that mention Silas Marner (6)
Trilby by George du Maurier: “with _Silas Marner_, and Darwin's _Origin of Species_ (which he was reading for the third time), and _Punch_”
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: “I put down Silas Marner, which we were reading for school”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “I have since read Silas Marner, the story of an old bachelor who attaches a foundling to his loom.”
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin: “...some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle.”
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson: “"She had read Silas Marner aloud almost daily for the past ten years, marked tests in a dainty blue pencil, and still blushed dreadfully at the age of thirty-four." — from the story "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," describing Miss Matt's years of teaching.”
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: “Silas Marner is barely tolerable.”