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The Mill on the Floss (Wordsworth Classics)
The Mill on the Floss - Wordsworth Classics Author:George Eliot Introduction by and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of YorkThis novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has fo... more »r her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence.Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.« less