by George Eliot · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140815177
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«The Mill on the Floss» is the adapted edition of George Eliot's novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (48 pages, in English).
Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom grow up by the River Floss, in the English countryside. Maggie's lively character and her desire for fulfilment clash with the closed rural Victorian community and, above all, with her beloved brother. The novel speaks of love, family duty and the restrictions that nineteenth-century society imposed on women.
Abridged and adapted edition by Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter, published in 1995 in the Penguin Readers Level 4 series; the original work dates from 1860.
For students of English: graded reader at level 4, with controlled vocabulary and short length, designed for the classroom.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
