The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss

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Publisher Description

Published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss was the second novel published by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans). Set in the late 1820s or early 1830s, it tells the story of two young people, Tom and Maggie Tulliver, from their childhood into early adulthood. Their father, Jeremy Tulliver, owns Dorlcote Mill on the river Floss, and the children grow to adolescence in relative comfort. However Tulliver is litigious and initiates an unwise legal suit against a local solicitor, Wakem. The suit is thrown out and the associated costs throw the Tulliver family into poverty, and they lose possession of the mill.


The main character of the novel is Maggie Tulliver, an intelligent and passionate child and young woman, whose mental, romantic, and moral struggles we follow closely. As in Eliot’s other novels, the author shows a realistic and sympathetic understanding of human behavior.


The Mill on the Floss is regarded as a classic of English literature, and has been made into both a film and a television series.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
February 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
853
Pages
PUBLISHER
Standard Ebooks
SELLER
Standard Ebooks L3C
SIZE
1.1
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