Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coin lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living.But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away? What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend?
Manuel Fernández Álvarez (Madrid, 1921 - Salamanca, 2010) fue miembro de la Real Academia de la Historia y catedrático de Historia Moderna, y sigue siendo una referencia imprescindible por sus estudios históricos sobre la Edad Moderna (La sociedad española del Renacimiento, o el que ganó el Premio Nacional Historia de España en 1985: La sociedad española en el Siglo de Oro). Su extensa obra abarca desde el monumental Corpus documental de Carlos V y las grandes biografías Carlos V, el césar y el hombre; Felipe II y su tiempo; Isabel la Católica; Juana la Loca; La princesa de Éboli o El duque de Hierro, hasta aquellas en las que enfoca figuras de gran trascendencia cultural o política, como Fray Luis de León, Jovellanos o Cervantes.
