Silas Marner. Read it.

I finished reading George Eliot's Silas Marner a few days ago and have nothing but good things to say about it. It is the story of a miserly, hermit of a man who has his fortune stolen, only to be replaced by an orphaned little girl.

I have always put off reading Silas Marner because my only other experience with George Eliot's writing is Middlemarch, a super-long, and at times super-boring novel. I am happy to report that Silas Marner is not boring or long, and has a very happy ending, which was a nice change from the two downers I read the past two months.

Pick it up and read it sometime when you looking for a short little gem of 19th century literature. You won't be disappointed.