The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)
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"As one comes back to [Eliot's] books after years of absence they pour out, even against our expectations, the same store of energy and heat, so that we want more than anything to idle in the warmth."
--Virginia Woolf
From the Trade Paperback edition.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Book Description
As Maggie Tulliver approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom. Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfillment. This edition of The Mill on the Floss offers the definitve Clarendon text with a new Introduction which deals with Eliot, Darwinism, and the intellecutal life of the period, as well as providing close textual analysis.
The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)
The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics),George Eliot,Gordon S. Haight,Dinah Birch,Oxford University Press, USA,0192833642,Brothers and sisters,Classics,Conflict of generations,Eliot, George, 1819-1880,Fiction,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Loss (Psychology),Young women,19th century fiction,England,English,Fiction / Literary,Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
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