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The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
The Mill On The Floss starts out as a scaled down Middlemarch, with fewer plot lines but equally compelling characters, relationships, and philosophies.
It follows the childhoods of Maggie and Tom Tulliver and the drama surrounding their parents and relatives as they grow into a difficult inheritance with the mill on the River Floss. Maggie is a highly intelligent and poetic but blundering and strong headed girl, while Tom is a hard working, simple, judgmental and self-righteous older brother. As Maggie grows up, she finds herself entangled in a romantic knot that would be so difficult to untangle that no one could begin to sort the skein.
And-spoiler!-not even Mary Ann Evans, alias George Eliot, could figure out what to do with the mess. She apparently got bored toward the end of a long and messy and psychologically engaging romance and decided the best way to squirm out of it was to have a natural disaster come through town just at the climax and erase the problem of relationships by taking the crucial cast members to the grave yard.
I was eager to give this book five stars before Eliot elbowed the checker board when my back was turned. It’s still worth reading, as long as you don’t mind the complete lack of an ending to your plots.
It follows the childhoods of Maggie and Tom Tulliver and the drama surrounding their parents and relatives as they grow into a difficult inheritance with the mill on the River Floss. Maggie is a highly intelligent and poetic but blundering and strong headed girl, while Tom is a hard working, simple, judgmental and self-righteous older brother. As Maggie grows up, she finds herself entangled in a romantic knot that would be so difficult to untangle that no one could begin to sort the skein.
And-spoiler!-not even Mary Ann Evans, alias George Eliot, could figure out what to do with the mess. She apparently got bored toward the end of a long and messy and psychologically engaging romance and decided the best way to squirm out of it was to have a natural disaster come through town just at the climax and erase the problem of relationships by taking the crucial cast members to the grave yard.
I was eager to give this book five stars before Eliot elbowed the checker board when my back was turned. It’s still worth reading, as long as you don’t mind the complete lack of an ending to your plots.