The Mill on the Floss

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A Norton Critical Edition

By George Eliot

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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot explores the lives of siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver as they navigate family dynamics and the societal expectations of their time. Growing up at Dorlcote Mill, the pair face numerous personal and financial challenges, reflecting on themes of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. The novel paints a vivid portrait of rural 19th-century England, with complex characters and intricate emotional depth.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This classic tale invites you into a world of deep family dynamics and explores themes of love, duty, and freedom. If you're drawn to richly detailed stories about the tensions between societal expectations and personal desires, or if you enjoy examining the complexities of sibling relationships, this might be a perfect choice for you.

The best-known and most autobiographical of George Eliot’s novels is now available as a Norton Critical Edition.

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The text of The Mill on the Floss, based on the 1862 third edition for which Eliot made her last revisions, has been annotated to assist the reader with obscure references and allusions.

Backgrounds includes fifteen letters from the 1859-69 period centring on the novel's content and composition; Brother and Sister (1869), a little-known sonnet sequence; and eight Victorian reviews and responses, both published and unpublished, on the novel, including those by Henry James, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and John Ruskin.

Judiciously chosen from the wealth of essays on The Mill on the Floss published in this century, Criticism includes ten of the best studies of the novel, providing the reader with historical and critical perspective.

The contributors are Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf, F. R. Leavis, George Levine, Ulrich Knoepflmacher, Philip Fisher, Mary Jacobus, John Kucich, Margaret Homans, and Deirdre David.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot is often praised for its vivid characterisation and deep exploration of familial and societal conflicts. Reviewers highlight the novel's emotional depth and the complex relationship between the siblings, Maggie and Tom Tulliver. Eliot's skilful depiction of rural life and moral dilemmas resonates with readers, though some find the narrative's pacing uneven, particularly towards the latter parts.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393963328

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 January 1994

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

Edited by Carol T. Christ

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 607g

Pages: 640

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction George Eliot Literary Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

Born Mary Ann Evans, Victorian novelist George Eliot (1819-1880) is the author of a number of remarkable works, including the masterpiece Middlemarch. Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and President of Smith College. She is the author of The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity and Victorian Poetry and Victorian and Modern Poetics and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Mill on the Floss and, with John Jordan, Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. She is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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