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The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)
George Eliot
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Description for The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)
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'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring into conflict his passionate daughter Maggie with her inflexible but adored brother Tom. As she grows older, Maggie's discovery of romantic love draws her once more into a struggle to reconcile familial and moral claims with her own desires. Strong-willed, compassionate, and intensely loyal, Maggie seeks personal happiness and inner peace but risks rejection and ... Read more
'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring into conflict his passionate daughter Maggie with her inflexible but adored brother Tom. As she grows older, Maggie's discovery of romantic love draws her once more into a struggle to reconcile familial and moral claims with her own desires. Strong-willed, compassionate, and intensely loyal, Maggie seeks personal happiness and inner peace but risks rejection and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198707530
SKU
V9780198707530
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About George Eliot
Juliette Atkinson is the author of Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives (OUP, 2010) and is preparing a book for OUP called Immortal Improprieties: French Novels and the Victorians.
Reviews for The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)
it's the non-posh voices that leap off the page - the wives of prosperous farmers and merchants taken directly from Eliot's own childhood
Kate Saunders, The Big Issue
It's a little late for me to review a book that has been a prized classic of English literature for over a hundred years, so I'll confine my comments to ... Read more
Kate Saunders, The Big Issue
It's a little late for me to review a book that has been a prized classic of English literature for over a hundred years, so I'll confine my comments to ... Read more