It is Maggie, however, who is the dominant character of the book, arguably one of the great characters of 19th century literature. Character differences between Tom and Maggie - he dour and rigid of thought, she lively and impulsive - seem to matter little in childhood, but eventually strain their relationship beyond breaking point. In large measure, their lives are dominated by their father, a successful miller brought down by his inability to resist settling arguments in a court of law. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds so dear. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)
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