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The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

 
Description: ISBN 0141439629 / Author: George Eliot / Genre: Classic Literature

Newest Review: ... Her father's foolishness leads the family into abject poeverty. We see snippets of other family members and local people ... more

 ... - not as much detail as you get in Middlemarch, but certainly enough to provide richness. Maggie Tulliver falls in love with her coursn's btrothed, and finds that he returns her feelings. He persuades her to go off with him in a boat and attempts an elopemtn. for the sake of her cousin, who she loves dearly, Maggie returns. The community in which she lives is quick to judge her - assuming that she has slept with Stephen and that he has rejected her. It is obvious that had they run off and married, it would have b...more

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Edition: First Thus, Unknown Binding, Folio Society
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Bryn+Pearson
Premium Review The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot: The dark heroine (446 words)
by Bryn Pearson - written on 20/04/01 (Very useful, 1009 readings)
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I remember once reading a comment written by George Eliot, in which she said that she always hoped for books in which the less pretty, dark haired girl triumphed rather than the elfin blondes. The Mill on The Floss is the tale of the dark girl triumphant - for the man prefers her to her pretty blond cousin. It is also a tale of homour and courage in the face of social disapproval, and finally the fate of the heroine is not a happy one. The plot then - the section of the book deals with the heroine's early life - her adoration for her older brother, her parent's pretentions and errors. Her father's foolishness leads the family into abject poeverty. We ...

athena
Premium Review It's very long... (129 words)
by athena - written on 02/09/00 (Somewhat useful, 192 readings)
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As one of my set texts for a degree unit in Victorian Literature, I was meant to read The Mill On The Floss. I like to keep up with my reading and I like to do well with my work. I didn't enjoy the novel at all, although I had enjoyed previous Victorain Literature I had read. It's very much about the oppression of Maggie as a female and her eventual death...it is considered to be the first true realist novel. It did not appeal to me at all though. Some elements were far too serious and much of the story felt far too miserable for my liking....it's nice to have a _little_ humour, even if it is only comic relief. ...

hayley
Premium Review The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (181 words)
by hayley - written on 12/07/00 (Very useful, 510 readings)
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The Mill on the Floss is a great read by George Eliot. Written in the nineteenth century, it nevertheless has many useful parallels to twenty-first century life. Basically it is a novel about a girl called Maggie, who, impulsive even as a child, elopes with her cousin's fiance. The story is based very much around Maggie's thoughts and feelings and she is a heroine who you really begin to care for, unlike her narrow-minded brother Tom. The Mill on the Floss is a well-written and paced story which moves the reader through a variety of emotions, ranging from amusement, which then culminates in the poignanncy of the tragic ending. George ...

 

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