The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451528263 ISBN 13: 9780451528261

Publisher: Signet, 2002

Synopsis

One of George Eliot's finest achievements, The Mill on the Floss is famed for its unsurpassed depiction of English rural life and for its striking, superbly drawn heroine, Maggie Tulliver. The novel's evocation of childhood in the English countryside-at once unsentimental, yet rich with delight-stands as an enduring triumph, but equally memorable are its portrayal of a narrow tradition-bound society and its dramatic unfolding of tragic human destiny.

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George Eliot had no peer when it came to finding the drama at the heart of normal lives, lived out in tandem with the slow, gigantic rhythms of nature itself. 'The Mill On The Floss' (1860), a story of the growth of the moral imagination in this young, sensitive heroine, Maggie Tulliver, restores to conditions of human existence that we can all recognize their actual originality and strangeness, and reveals once again how thoroughly, in the hands of a master like George Eliot, the art of fiction can satisfy our deepest mental and emotional cravings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0451528263
• ISBN 13: 9780451528261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 612