Mill on the Floss - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804900434 ISBN 13: 9780804900430

Publisher: Airmont Publishing Company, 1964

Synopsis

THIS IS THE READER'S ENRICHMENT SERIES EDITION----with much supplemental material!! The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860. Like other of George Eliot's novels, The Mill on the Floss articulates the tension between circumstances and the spiritual energies of individuals struggling against those circumstances. A certain determinism is at play throughout the novel, from Mr. Tulliver's grossly imprudent inability to keep himself from "going to law," and thereby losing his patrimony and bankrupting his family, to the series of events which sets Maggie and Stephen down the river and past the point of no return. Individuals such as Mr. Tulliver, are presented as unable to determine their own course rationally, and forces, be it the drift of the river or the force of a flood, are presented as determining the courses of individuals for them. On the other hand, Maggie's ultimate choice not to marry Stephen, and to suffer both the privation of his love and the ignominy of their botched elopement demonstrates a final triumph of free will.

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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: Airmont Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0804900434
• ISBN 13: 9780804900430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 414