Mill on the Floss

Description:

From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences of renunciation.

subjects: Brothers and sisters,  Women clergy,  Infanticide,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Vendetta,  Fiction,  Water mills,  Loss (Psychology),  Conflict of generations,  Carpenters,  Young women,  Classic Literature,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Readers,  Eliot, george, 1819-1880,  England, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Boys, fiction,  Brothers and sisters, fiction,  Young women, fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, romance, general,  Domestic fiction,  Fiction, family life, general,  Fiction, family life,  English literature,  England -- Fiction,  Psychological fiction,  Young women -- Fiction,  Love stories,  Brothers and sisters -- Fiction,  Conflict of generations -- Fiction,  Vendetta -- Fiction,  Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction,  Water mills -- Fiction,  Great britain, fiction,  Siblings,  Siblings, fiction,  Women,  Social conditions,  Large type books,  Family, fiction,  Geology,  Maps,  Southern Railway (U.S.),  Queuing theory,  Playscript,  Vendatta

People: George Eliot (1819-1880)

Places: England

Times: 19th century