Eliot, George, 1819-1880
The mill on the floss / George Eliot ; introduction and notes by R. T. Jones - First edition - 471 pages ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics .
The mill on the floss, 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 Mggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois, because 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.
9781853260741
English novel
Novela inglesa
823 / / E427m
The mill on the floss / George Eliot ; introduction and notes by R. T. Jones - First edition - 471 pages ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics .
The mill on the floss, 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 Mggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois, because 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.
9781853260741
English novel
Novela inglesa
823 / / E427m