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The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1860
Pages
Pages 550

A miller's clever daughter grows up close to her stern brother, then is disowned when a boat trip with her cousin's suitor becomes an overnight scandal. A flood drowns them together as she rows out to save him.

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The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot

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