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Strong-willed, compassionate, and intensely loyal, Maggie seeks personal happiness and inner peace but risks rejection and ostracism in her close-knit community. Opening with one of the most powerful fictional evocations of childhood, The Mill on the Floss (1860) vividly portrays both the 'oppressive narrowness' and the appeal of provincial ...
The narrator of The Mill on the Floss describes St. Ogg’s, the town where Tom and Maggie Tulliver grew up, as a place where “ignorance was much more comfortable than at present”—meaning the reader’s present is a more “enlightened” age. Throughout the novel, both Tom and Maggie struggle with the smallness of their home town and its provincial, narrow-minded values.
Full Title The Mill on the Floss. Author George Eliot (pseudonym for Marian Evans). Type of work Novel. Genre Victorian novel, tragedy. Language English. Time and place written Richmond and Wandsworth in England, 1859–1860. Date of first publication 1860. Publisher Blackwood and Sons. Narrator The unnamed narrator was alive for Maggie Tulliver's life and is narrating the events many years later.
The Mill on the Floss (em português, O moinho à beira do rio) é um romance de George Eliot, primeiramente publicado em três volumes em 1860 por William Blackwood [1]. A primeira edição norte-americana foi publicada por Thomas Y. Crowell Co., em Nova York.
Book Summary. Mr. Tulliver has decided to remove Tom from the academy where he presently studies and send him to a school where he can learn things that will raise him in the world. Mr. Tulliver has indefinite ideas on education, and he seeks advice from an acquaintance, Mr. Riley, whom he judges to be knowledgeable. Mr.
Appears in 83 books from 1844-2007. Page 9 - A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. Appears in 80 books from 1860-2005. Page 34 - Oh, how brave you are, Tom ! I think you're like Samson.
The Mill on the Floss was George Eliot’s third book, after Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) and Adam Bede (1859). She began writing the novel in 1859 and it was first published in 1860, with a few subsequent revised editions. The novel was eagerly anticipated, as Adam Bede had been very successful, and it ended up being well-received for the most part. . It was not as uniformly praised as Adam ...
