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The Mill on the Floss de George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss

Autor George Eliot
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 feb 2010

Proza lui George Eliot se distinge printr-o acuratețe psihologică neiertătoare, dublată de o inteligență sclipitoare care refuză simplificările morale. Putem afirma că în The Mill on the Floss, limbajul nu servește doar la descrierea unui peisaj rural, ci devine un instrument de disecție a sufletului uman, pendulând între ironie detașată și un lirism profund în scenele de o vulnerabilitate copleșitoare. Reținem aici destinul lui Maggie Tulliver, o eroină a cărei sete de cunoaștere și afecțiune se lovește constant de pragmatismul rigid al fratelui său, Tom, și de prejudecățile unei comunități din Lincolnshire. Ca și Middlemarch, acest roman explorează limitările impuse individului de structurile sociale, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai intimă și tragică, axată pe legăturile de sânge și pe greutatea trecutului. Dacă în Silas Marner întâlnim o formă de izbăvire prin comunitate, aici George Eliot alege să exploreze izolarea și imposibilitatea reconcilierii dintre dorința personală și datoria familială. Ediția de față, publicată de WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD, este organizată riguros, oferind nu doar textul integral, ci și un aparat critic valoros. Cuprinsul relevă o progresie de la cronologia vieții autoarei către o serie de apendice esențiale: traduceri din Feuerbach și eseuri despre tragedia greacă, care oferă cititorului cheia intelectuală prin care Eliot și-a construit personajele. Este o operă despre maturizare, marcată de prezența simbolică a râului Floss, care oglindește fluxul ireversibil al timpului și al consecințelor morale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099519065
ISBN-10: 0099519062
Pagini: 624
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care apreciază proza clasică de o mare profunzime psihologică. Recomandăm această carte deoarece oferă unul dintre cele mai emoționante portrete ale copilăriei și adolescenței din literatura victoriană. Veți câștiga o înțelegere nuanțată a conflictului dintre identitatea proprie și așteptările sociale, totul într-o ediție de colecție ce include documente istorice și analize critice care îmbogățesc experiența lecturii.

Despre autor

George Eliot, pseudonimul literar al lui Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), a fost una dintre figurile centrale ale epocii victoriene, recunoscută pentru realismul său filosofic. Viața sa, marcată de o relație neconvențională și de o educație intelectuală vastă, a influențat direct temele sale predilecte: moralitatea provincială și condiția femeii. De la debutul cu Adam Bede până la capodopera Middlemarch, Eliot s-a impus prin capacitatea de a transforma experiențele rurale în interogații universale despre datorie și pasiune, rămânând până astăzi un reper al literaturii engleze.

Recenzii

• "George Eliot was the most extraordinary Englishwoman of her century." --Peter Ackroyd, The Times
• "It was my first really grown-up book, but is the book that wrings my heart and I feel I bump into elements of it all my life." --Independent
• "If I had an imaginary friend, Maggie was it. I loved her, I laughed with her, I agonized about her problems, I cried over her... and I still do... George Eliot's understanding of human nature is profound... the greatest British novelist of any age." --Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

Notă biografică

GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. She later moved to Coventry with her father. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch, her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch. The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on December 22, 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.

Descriere scurtă

A powerful and dramatic tragedy about the struggle between head and heart.
     
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA LEWYCKA

Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both willful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly bring them into conflict, particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments. George Eliot's story of a brother and sister bound together by their errors and affections is told with tenderness, energy and a profound understanding of human nature.

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Rebellious and affectionate, Maggie Tulliver is always in trouble. Recalling her own experiences as a girl, George Eliot describes Maggie's turbulent childhood with a sympathetic engagement that makes the early chapters of The Mill on the Floss among the most immediately attractive she ever wrote. As Maggie approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom. Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfillment. George Eliot's searching exploration of Maggie's complex dilemma has made this one of the most enduringly popular of her works.

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'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?'When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring into conflict his passionate daughter Maggie with her inflexible but adored brother Tom. As she grows older, Maggie's discovery of romantic love draws her once more into a struggle to reconcile familial and moral claims with her own desires. Strong-willed, compassionate, and intensely loyal, Maggie seeks personal happiness and inner peace but risks rejection and ostracism in her close-knit community.Opening with one of the most powerful fictional evocations of childhood, The Mill on the Floss (1860) vividly portrays both the 'oppressive narrowness' and the appeal of provincial England, the comedy as well as the tragedy of obscure lives. George Eliot's most autobiographical novel was also her most controversial, and has been the subject of animated debate ever since. This edition combines the definitive Clarendon text with a lively new introduction and notes.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
George Eliot: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Mill on the Floss
Appendix A: George Eliot’s Translations, Essays, Reviews, and Poems
  1. From George Eliot’s translation of Ludwig Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity (1854)
  2. [George Eliot], “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft,” Leader (13 October 1855)
  3. From [George Eliot], review of Thomas Keightley’s Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton, The Westminster Review (October 1855)
  4. [George Eliot], “The Antigone and Its Moral,” Leader (29 March 1856)
  5. From [George Eliot], “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” The Westminster Review (October 1856)
  6. From George Eliot, “Notes on ‘The Spanish Gypsy’ and Tragedy in General” (1868)
  7. George Eliot, “Brother and Sister,” The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems (1874)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of The Mill on the Floss
  1. Spectator (7 April 1860)
  2. [E.S. Dallas], The Times (19 May 1860)
  3. [Dinah Mulock], Macmillan’s Magazine (April 1861)
  4. From Henry James, The Atlantic Monthly (October 1866)
Appendix C: Historical Documents: Mythic and Religious Contexts; Medicine and Education
  1. From Mrs. Anna Jameson, “St. Christopher,” Sacred and Legendary Art, vol. 2 (1848)
  2. From Daniel Defoe, “Of the Tools the Devil Works with,” The History of the Devil (1727)
  3. From Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (1737)
  4. From Auguste Comte, The Catechism of Positivism (1858)
  5. From Samuel Hare, Cases and Observations Illustrative of the Beneficial Results (1857)
  6. From [William Ballantyne Hodgson], “‘Classical’ Instruction: Its Use and Abuse,” The Westminster Review(October 1853)
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