Silas hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that fill this moving tale of guilt and innocence.
A bitter man living alone with his hoard of gold learns about the power of love after he loses his wealth and takes in an orphan girl who grows up and continues to care for him.
Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl, with crime, remorse, and suffering as the consequences.
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
The lives of three people in a nineteenth-century provincial community become entwined as crusader Dorothea Brooke is prevented from being with the man she loves, the idealistic Dr. Lydgate succumbs to materialism, and religious hypocrite Bulstrode tries to hide his past crimes.
After hiding himself from society for several years, the town weaver discovers that his gold is missing and a young girl has been placed on his doorstep to take its place.
A bitter man living alone with his hoard of gold learns about the power of love when his riches are stolen and a beautiful child is left on his doorstep.
