Eliot follows up 'Adam Bede' with a novel that demands my unswerving respect. 'The Mill on the Floss', even after the characters move into adulthood, is about childhood. Its wonderful and scarring and inevitably ends. This novel features plenty of unabashed appreciations of nature and the characters...
“It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.” I was not at all prepared for this book, with its true tragedy and subtle beauty. The ending will linger in my m...
The end almost dropped this to three stars, but the overall is still a very strong and emotionally impacting story. There's some belabored dithering through the childhood of Maggie and Tom and sidetracks into the business doings of Tom as a young man that could have been much briefer in support of t...
NOTE : find the complete review and more on http://cocainepages.wordpress.comThis is a classic, so I wouldn't expect anything less than what was delivered. The story is touching, and Eliot is really good in describing the people and the whereabouts of a certain time, to explain their day-to-day acti...
ETA: Eliot can write. She has a great vocabulary, but so does a dictionary. ***************************I finished 3 minutes ago. I will write the review later..... but this is just to explode!!!! The ending sucks. TERRIBLE ending. I think that is one of the worst endings I have ever come across. Th...
I really felt for Maggie throughout the book. She was such an intelligent child, reading classics at age 9 that I've yet to read. It's such a shame that she wasn't given an education as she was a woman but Tom (who learned next to nothing at his school- what a waste of money!)was.I also felt sorry f...
It is easy to fall in love with the heroine of this story, Maggie Tulliver. Although she wants to be the ideal Victorian female, she can't help herself. She is bold, affectionate, impulsive and passionate and just can't fill the role of the passive and obedient daughter. What Maggie wants more th...
I think it will take me a few days to process this novel. Eliot brilliantly made me feel, care and relate to the characters. The novel follows Maggie and her family the Tullivers through happiness, loss and redemption. I absolutely loved Maggie but her striving to goodness drove me crazy. As I said ...
this was much funnier than i remember it being, but still found it a bit of a rough go in parts. all the same, i appreciate it more than i believe i did about 5 years ago when i first read it.
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