Flour Mill on the River Floss (Level 4) (Penguin English Graded Readers)

Author: (British) George Eliot (Eliot, G.) wrote, with notes by Zhang Hongying
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Publishing Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Dorlcote Mill is the home of Tom Tulliver, Maggie Tulliver, and their parents. Mr. Tulliver is a proud and successful man, living a happy family life. However, as his success comes to an end, Maggie and Tom's childhood also ends. Suddenly, life becomes hard. Tom must work until he earns enough money for all that his father needs. Moreover, like his father, he can never forgive his enemies, even at the cost of his sister's happiness. The Mill on the Floss is one of the masterpieces of the 19th century. The author, George Eliot, is one of the greatest writers in Britain. In fact, she was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Born in Arbury Farm, Warwickshire in 1819, she was an outstanding novelist of the Victorian era in Britain. She is considered a British novelist who could deeply examine the psychology of characters and possessed a sharp intuition, capable of profoundly analyzing human insignificance and human idealism in literature (Harry Blamires, 1974). The psychological analysis in her novels influenced such writers as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Marcel Proust.