Bookworm_Weaver Ma Nan

Author: T.S. Eliot (English), West (English) revised, translated by Zou Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
Features: In the quiet countryside of early 19th-century England, life followed an unchanging pattern. The changing of seasons was the same for the squire and his family living in the grand house as it was for the villagers in their small cottages. Any novelty or strangeness would be met with suspicion in a village like Ruffolo. The weaver Silas Marner was very strange. He lived alone, and no one knew anything about his family. If you didn’t know who his parents were, how could you trust him? He had a pale complexion and strange eyes, and he always stared because he had to work long hours on the loom every day, even on Sundays when he should have been going to church. He must be the devil’s friend, the villagers would say to each other. Poor Silas! He was a sorrowful, lonely man, his only friends being the shiny gold coins he earned from weaving, which he hid beneath the floorboards. But changes always happen, even in a quiet village like Ruffolo. There was a secret between the squire’s two sons, leading to arguments, fights, and death. It was on a snowy night, near Silas’s cottage.