Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe and Scenes of Clerical Life

This volume pairs two early works. Scenes of Clerical Life, first issued in 1857, comprises three tales of Midlands clergymen and the households around them: a drunkard's wife, an unfortunate curate, and a minister whose past returns. Silas Marner, published in 1861, follows a linen weaver, expelled from a northern sect, who hoards gold in the village of Raveloe until a theft and an abandoned child alter his solitude. Both pieces treat rural dissent, class, and conscience. The book is a pairing of a short novel with three clerical stories, not a single continuous narrative.

Bound in dark green cloth blocked with a gilt design. Dark green slipcase.