The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Mill on the FlossGeorge Eliot · 1860Maggie and Tom Tulliver grow up by the river Floss. Read The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot page by page and explore its network of 846 people, places and…A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black ships—laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of oil-bearing seed, or with the dark glitter of coal—are borne along to the town of St Ogg’s, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river-brink, tingeing the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun. Far away on each…All books in the ECCE gallery