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MILL ON THE FLOSS
by Eliot, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palmyra, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Aldine Book Publishing. Good with no dust jacket. 1860. Hardcover. E--The blue cloth cover has discoloration from water damage on spine and upper back. Mild edgewear. Mild soil to closed edge. Some mild dampness stain along upper margin of back section of book and rear pastedown. Long chip along top margin of pg 149/150. A large piece was torn from pg 151/152, but has been repaired. A some gutter cracks. The contents list 4 illustrations but there are none. Sound binding. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 558 pages; .
Synopsis
GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. She later moved to Coventry with her father. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch , her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch . The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on December 22, 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Bookmarket
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22884
- Title
- MILL ON THE FLOSS
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Aldine Book Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- Classic, George Eliot, Fiction, Rare, Collectable
Terms of Sale
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Book Repair, Professional, Tender Loving Repair of your books in Distress.Books, used, antiquarian, out-of-print, and gifts including Mini Book Earrings.A Little Shop That is BIG on Service.
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
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