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The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

Date: 02/09/00 (193 review reads)
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Advantages: It might make a good doorstop

Disadvantages: it's lengthy, descriptive and melancholy

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.

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themoomin

- 12/03/01

Sorry for the SU - only because it was so short, and didn't tell me anything about the book apart that you didn't like it!

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