[The Mill on the Floss]
Year:
1860
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Year of publication:
2003
Pages:
704
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Tom and Maggie are the children of the simple, ignorant miller Tulliver, working at Dorlcote Mill on the river Floss. Tom is more like his father and is unimaginative, while Maggie is rebellious, emotional and intelligent. Yet while Tom is content, Maggie is unhappy and restless. She develops a love for Philip Waken, the deformed son of a local lawyer. Tulliver falls on hard times and becomes bankrupt, and the lawyer Waken takes possession of the mill.
George Eliot was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1819 and died in 1880. This is a masterly insight showing the workings of a child's mind. Hailed as a masterpiece at the time, the second half is thought to be weaker in plot.
Author: Cliff Cobb, United Kingdom
Update on: Apr 2023