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The Mill on the Floss
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bookshelves: 2020-readings, female-writers, english-editions, e-5, british-literature, historical-fiction, george-eliot
Sep 30, 2020
bookshelves: 2020-readings, female-writers, english-editions, e-5, british-literature, historical-fiction, george-eliot
I had heard of George Eliot as a classic to read. My first surprise was to discover that, like George Sand, George Eliot was, in fact, a woman. But that wasn't the only good surprise. The writing is modern while remaining classic, of Proust before the hour. Like its author, the theme is avant-garde, drawing heavily from his life to inform the main character. The actors in the book are not Manichean, but complex, allowing us to identify with their destiny all the better. With a stunning finale, this book has all the elements of a modern adventure. It wraps in classicism.
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Reading Progress
September 19, 2020
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September 19, 2020
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September 25, 2020
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September 26, 2020
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10.04%
"But Tom, you perceive, was rather a Rhadamanthine personage, having more than the usual share of boy's justice in him - the justice that desires to hurt culprits as much as they deserve to be hurt, and is troubled with no doubts concerning the exact amount of their deserts.
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September 26, 2020
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"Aunt Pullet was quite willing to take the shortest means of restoring her premises to order and quiet, and it was not long before Mrs Tulliver was in the chaise looking anxiously at the most distant point before her. What the father would say if Maggie was lost? was a question that predominated over every other."
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September 26, 2020
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24.62%
"Maggie was already so full of sorrow at the thought of Tom's going away from her, that this playful exultation of his seemed very unkind, and she cried herself to sleep that night."
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September 27, 2020
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"(...)
And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory - that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form and colour, but the long companion of my existence, that wove itself into my joys when joys were vivid."
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And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory - that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form and colour, but the long companion of my existence, that wove itself into my joys when joys were vivid."
September 27, 2020
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36.17%
"They had gone forth together into their new life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares. They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them."
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September 27, 2020
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42.42%
"Among the threads of the past which the stricken man had gathered up, he had omitted the bill of sale; the flash of memory had only lit up prominent ideas, and he sank into forgetfulness again with half his humiliation unlearned."
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224
September 28, 2020
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50.57%
"There was a dead silence as Tom's pen moved along the paper: Mrs Tulliver looked scared, and Maggie trembled like a leaf."
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267
September 28, 2020
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55.68%
"And Maggie's graces of mind and body fed his gloom. He sat patiently enough while she read him a chapter, or said something timidly when they were alone together about trouble being turned into a blessing.
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September 29, 2020
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67.99%
"At last, there was total stillness and poor Tulliver's dimly-lighted soul had forever ceased to be vexed with the painful riddle of this world.
Help has come now: Luke and his wife were there, and Mr Turnbull had arrived, too late for everything but to say, "This is death.""
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359
Help has come now: Luke and his wife were there, and Mr Turnbull had arrived, too late for everything but to say, "This is death.""
September 29, 2020
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75.57%
"There was something rather sad in that speech from a young man of three-and-twenty, even in uncle Deane's business-loving ears."
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September 30, 2020
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85.23%
"She hurried along, and not another word was spoken. Stephen stood still and beckoned when they came within sight of Willy and the horse, and Maggie went on through the gate. Mrs Moss was standing alone at the door of the old porch: she had sent all the cousins in, with kind thoughtfulness.
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"(...)
The love she had renounced came back upon her with a cruel charm, she felt herself opening her arms to receive it once more; and then it seemed to slip away and fade and vanish, leaving only the dying sound of a deep thrilling voice that said, "Gone - forever gone.""
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The love she had renounced came back upon her with a cruel charm, she felt herself opening her arms to receive it once more; and then it seemed to slip away and fade and vanish, leaving only the dying sound of a deep thrilling voice that said, "Gone - forever gone.""
September 30, 2020
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September 30, 2020
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female-writers
September 30, 2020
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December 14, 2021
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english-editions
December 24, 2021
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August 9, 2023
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british-literature
August 9, 2023
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historical-fiction
January 16, 2024
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george-eliot
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I really liked Silas Marner, and from what you write, it looks like I should try this too.
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Patrick wrote: "I really liked Silas Marner, and from what you write, it looks like I should try this too."Yes, I like this one. I would try Silas Marner, per your recommendation.
Good review Luis, aptly analyzed!Happy reading !
Piyush wrote: "Good review Luis, aptly analyzed!Happy reading !"
Thank you, Piyush. Happy Readings to you too.
This sounds immaculate! Glad you enjoyed!
Maddy ✨ wrote: "This sounds immaculate! Glad you enjoyed!"Thank you, Maddy.
Linda wrote: "Excellent analysis."Thank you, Linda.
Funny how much I hated The Mill on the Floss at school, but rereading it over the years has made it one of my favourites. Maggie and the Tullivers are impossible to forget, and Eliot’s writing is just brilliant.
