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The Mill on the Floss

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Description for The Mill on the Floss Paperback. Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both willful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict, particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 440.

Discover George Eliot’s powerful tragedy about the struggle between head and heart.

**As Heard on BBC Radio 4**


Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both wilful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict, particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments. George Eliot's story of a brother and sister bound together by their errors and affections is told with tenderness, energy and a profound understanding of human nature.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA LEWYCKA

'George Eliot is the greatest British novelist of any age' Daily Mail

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099519065
SKU
V9780099519065
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About George Eliot
Mary Anne Evans was born near Nuneaton on 22 November 1819. She adopted the pseudonym George Eliot when she began her writing career. In her youth she was heavily influenced by her evangelical teachers but she later broke with orthodox religion. After she moved to Coventry with her father in 1841, she undertook the task of translating D.F. Strauss's controversial book Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1846) for Charles Bray. After her father's death she moved to London and helped to edit the radical journal the Westminster Review from 1851 to 1854. In 1851 she also met the journalist George Henry Lewes and, despite Lewes's marriage, they became partners for the rest of his life. In 1854 Lewes and Eliot openly set up home together, a scandalous arrangement by the social standards of the day. In 1857 Eliot published Scenes from Clerical Life in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim and established her as a bestselling author. Her most famous novel, Middlemarch was published serially in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and, in 1880, Eliot married John Walter Cross, an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on 22 December 1880 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.

Reviews for The Mill on the Floss
It was my first really grown-up book, but it is the book that wrings my heart and I feel I bump into elements of it all my life
Independent
A rich, gripping tragedy...narrative energy and emotional intelligence
Mail on Sunday
If I had an imaginary friend, Maggie was it. I loved her, I laughed with her, I agonised about her problems, I cried over her . . . and I still do...George Eliot's understanding of human nature is profound...the greatest British novelist of any age
Daily Mail
Maggie's dilemma is one that pervades much of Eliot's writing: the dilemma of head versus heart, the woman's struggle to be taken seriously as an intellect while coping with the demands of uninvited passion... Eliot dealt in human relationships and she was a mistress of the art
The Times

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