The Mill on the Floss: Volume 1

This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1860 edition by Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. This novel relates the adolescence of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, two siblings divided by their inclinations - Maggie wishes she could study Euclid, while Tom hates nothing more - but united by their boistrous spirits. The novel follows Maggie's romantic escapades and Tom's coming of age, detailing various aspects of nineteenth century rural British life in its chronicle of the Tulliver family.