| The Mill on the Floss: Introduction by Rosemary Ashton Contributor(s): Eliot, George (Author), Ashton, Rosemary (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679417265 ISBN-13: 9780679417262 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92052920 |
| Lexile Measure: 1240 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.67" H x 5.4" W x 8.22" (1.81 lbs) 640 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 66790 Reading Level: 9.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 41.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine and an acute critique of Victorian sexual politics. Eliot had no peer when it came to finding the drama at the heart of normal lives lived in tandem with the gigantic rhythms of nature itself, and in The Mill on the Floss she shows us once again how thoroughly the art of fiction can satisfy our deepest mental and emotional cravings. |