The mill on the floss
By: George Eliot ; edited by Gordon S. Haight ; with an introduction by Dinah Birch.
Contributors: Haight, Gordon Sherman.; Birch, Dinah.
Edition: New ed.
Series: World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
Subjects: Conflict of generations -- Fiction.; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.; Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Young women -- Fiction.; Water mills -- Fiction.; Vendetta -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Rebellious and affectionate, Maggie Tulliver is always in trouble. Recalling her own experiences as a girl, George Eliot describes Maggie's turbulent childhood with a sympathetic engagement that makes the early chapters of The Mill on the Floss among the most immediately attractive she ever wrote. As Maggie approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom.

Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfilment. George Eliot's searching exploration of Maggie's complex dilemma has made this one of the most enduringly popular of her works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-529).