Silar Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot, is a revered classic and delightful read. It is a tale of poetic justice, decades in the making. Silas suffers a double loss. The truth hidden is still the truth, though known only to the victim, the villain, and God. The author (Mary Ann Evans) has a gift for creating a story and gives her readers insight and involvement in the characters’ lives. Try this wonderful sentence: “A dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.” A great read by a great writer. There is “gold” in those pages.