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Original Title:	The Mill on the Floss
ISBN:	0141439629 (ISBN13: 9780141439624)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Maggie Tulliver, Tom Tulliver
Setting:	St. Ogg's(United Kingdom)

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Paperback | Pages: 579 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 46272 Users | 1883 Reviews

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'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'

Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.

In this edition writer and critic A.S. Byatt provides full explanatory notes and an introduction relating Mill on the Floss to George Eliot's own life and times.

Edited with an introduction and notes by A.S. BYATT

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Title	:	The Mill on the Floss
Author	:	George Eliot
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 579 pages
Published	:	February 27th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1860)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. 19th Century

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Definitely not my favourite Victorian novel. I enjoyed some of the themes and some of the scenes in the second half, but I found the pacing strange and very slow at the start, and the ending frustrated me.

George Elliot is both impressively encyclopaedic (from Captain Swing to pedallers)and narrowly individual (education shaping young people to be able to do nothing in particular) in this other tale of provincial life before the Railway Age. One lesson here is that"Nature repairs her ravages" (p490) but people don't. The fatal flaw of bearing a grudge is passed down from father Tulliver to son Tom so underlining that The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them:

Once upon a time I read an article that said that romantic love was 'invented' around the years 1200 by the Troubadoursthose persons dressed in puffy pants, walking around and playing lutes, singing about their lady love. By their songs they elevated the woman onto a pedestal and long ceaselessly for heras a matter of fact the whole point of chivalrous love being that it was never consummated considering that the object of romantic love is not really a human being, its an idealized image,

Five thousand stars.I don't really know what to say. To me, old novels sometimes feel too emotionally remote, usually the fault of the conservative style imposed on them, but this was one of the most emotionally vibrant things I've ever read. Maggie was such a vivid character that every page she's on feels true. And yet, it's such a novel, with themes so richly built. Because of Shannon's numerous discussions of it for many years, I knew most of the ending before starting, but that only made it

This is my third George Eliot novel and I must confess my favorite thus far, "Adam Bede" held that title but "The Mill on the Floss" grabbed at my heart strings which brought tears to my eyes and won that honor. I am not a big in the tears department so when a book can do this, I deem it special. One thing I love about classic books is the religion angle and Eliot brings that to the reader in "Middlemarch", "Adam Bede" and "The Mill on the Floss". She does not bring forth sermons but the values

Maggie sacrifices love for family loyalty in George Eliot's (a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans) semi-autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss, published 1860. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of St. Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England.In the introduction to the book, A.S.Byatt(Editor) states:No well-known novel contains so much

at least this has a happy ending when at last the tedious twats drown