Literature, Literature, Literature…

Silas Marner is about an old miser named Silas Marner (I wish to note here that I initially picked the book up because I thought the title read Silas Mariner. You can imagine my disappointment) who spends all day counting his money, until one day a little girl wanders into his hovel and warms his heart (he finds her mother dead, and so logically assumes that the child is now his to raise)…