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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot. First published in 1861, this classic English novel is widely admired for its brevity and perfection of form. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.It has also long delighted students of literature and general readers alike with its masterly portrait of moral and psychological behaviour in Victorian England and with its mystery, intrigue, and heart-warming denouement.The story of Marner's redemption and restoration to humanity has long been one of George Eliot's most beloved and widely read works. The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot's greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.