'It's a woman. She's dead, I think - dead in the snow at the
Stone-pits - not far from my door.' Since his arrival in the small
village of Raveloe, Silas Marner has been an outsider. Nobody knows
where he came from, nobody understands him, nobody dares to invite him
in. All of this changes when a little girl wanders through his door one
snowy night. What feelings will she stir in Silas's lonely heart? How
will she draw Silas closer to the heart of Raveloe? If Raveloe has a
heart, it also has a head in the form of the wealthy Cass family. When
Dunstan Cass enters Silas's life, he takes something valuable. Years
later, will Godfrey Cass do the same and take away what Silas has grown
to love most dearly?
Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy
development of primary and lower secondary age children while
introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage.
Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the
world's greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic
stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as
a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other
cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the
original versions.