This edition contains an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes. Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot’s own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature’s finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. The Mill on the Floss was very successful and helped George Eliot achieve even greater fame. The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. Before this novel, Eliot had published a book of short stories, the excitingly titled Scenes From a Clerical Life, and the novel Adam Bede. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor and an earnest old playmate who happens to be the son of her father and brother’s sworn enemy. The Mill on the Floss A re-invention of George Eliots classic story of loss, tragedy and the. The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot s the third major work of fiction and her second novel published in 1860.

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents.

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