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The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
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The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) Mass market paperback - 1980

by Eliot, George

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Penguin Classics, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Eliot, George
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, London
  • Date 1980
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0140431209I3N10
  • ISBN 9780140431209 / 0140431209
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.13 x 4.36 x 1.11 in (18.11 x 11.07 x 2.82 cm)
  • Reading level 1240
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England - Social life and customs - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00009144
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans Cross) was born on November 22, 1819 at Arbury Farm, Warwickshire, England. She received an ordinary education and, upon leaving school at the age of sixteen, embarked on a program of independent study to further her intellectual growth. In 1841 she moved with her father to Coventry, where the influences of “skeptics and rationalists” swayed her from an intense religious devoutness to an eventual break with the church. The death of her father in 1849 left her with a small legacy and the freedom to pursue her literary inclinations. In 1851 she became the assistant editor of the Westminster Review, a position she held for three years. In 1854 came the fated meeting with George Henry Lewes, the gifted editor of The Leader, who was to become her adviser and companion for the next twenty-four years. Her first book, Scenes of a Clerical Life (1858), was followed by Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872). The death of Lewes, in 1878, left her stricken and lonely. On May 6, 1880, she married John Cross, a friend of long standing, and after a brief illness she died on December 22 of that year, in London.

A. S. Byatt, novelist, short-story writer, and critic, is the author of many books, including Possession, winner of the Man Booker Prize.


A. S. Byatt, novelist, short-story writer, and critic, is the author of many books, including Possession, winner of the Man Booker Prize.

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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.

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