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The Mill on the Floss de George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss: Macmillan Collector's Library

Autor George Eliot
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2019

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: 9781509890019
ISBN-10: 1509890017
Pagini: 720
Dimensiuni: 103 x 157 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Pan Macmillan
Colecția Macmillan Collector's Library
Seria Macmillan Collector's Library

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.

Descriere scurtă

With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot's most autobiographical novel gives a wonderful evocation of rural life and the complicated relationship between siblings.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Mill on the Floss features an introduction by Professor Kathryn Hughes. Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom enjoy a rural childhood on the banks of the river Floss. But the approach of adulthood created tension: intelligent and fiery Maggie tests the boundaries of nineteenth-century society in her search for love, while Tom embraces convention and accepts his father's desire for him to become a businessman. Increasingly self-righteous, Tom disapproves of his sister's suitors and when he discovers that she took a fateful boat trip with Stephen Guest, her cousin's fianc, he turns his back on her. Maggie is ostracized by her beloved brother and her own community, and only through tragic events are the siblings reunited . . .

Notă biografică

George Eliot (1819-80) was born Mary Ann Evans into the family of a Warwickshire land agent and did not escape provincial life until she was 30. But she was brilliantly self-educated and able at once to shine in London literary circles. It was, however, her novels of English rural life that brought her fame, starting with Adam Bede, published under her new pen name in 1859, and reaching a zenith with Middlemarch in 1871. Eliot was a devoutly moral woman but lived for 25 years with a man who already had a wife. It is indicative of the respect and love that she inspired in her most devoted readers that Queen Victoria was one of them.

Descriere

George Eliot's masterful portrayal of rural nineteenth-century society, with a new introduction by Professor Kathryn Hughes.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Recenzii

This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver. Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature. Along with Maggie’s story, the novel also tells a companion tale of the social pressures that restrict the vision of her beloved brother Tom. George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss remains one of her most popular and influential works.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and extensive contextualizing notes as well as a broad range of appendices drawn from contemporary documents dealing with issues such as 19th-century views of disability, education, and the Woman Question.

“This edition of George Eliot’s most passionate novel about a woman’s life is accompanied by a selection of contemporary materials that demonstrate the surprisingly radical context of the author’s views at this point in her career. Oliver Lovesey has selected brief, eminently readable portions from Eliot’s own translations, essays, and reviews that will educate the reader in the ‘real’ George Eliot—a woman of amazing education herself, and of profoundly original thought that transcended the conventions of her time. The edition also includes the full text of the author’s poem, ‘Brother and Sister,’ a parallel narrative of Eliot’s childhood that is crucial to the reader’s understanding of the novel, as well as other very useful selections from historical documents and contemporary reviews of the novel.” — Mary Wilson Carpenter, Queen’s University
“This edition is a splendid presentation of George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel. The long and generous introduction dispels some of the myths about the author’s life, traces subtle relations between the novel and the moral complexities Eliot faced in Victorian society, places the novel in the context of her life’s work, and offers valuable analyses of the novel’s style and structure. Footnotes throughout the text helpfully explain dialect words, obsolete expressions and literary allusions. Excerpts from George Eliot’s critical writings, added as appendices, give insight into some of the ideas about fiction, religion, and the place of women in society that entered into the writing of The Mill on the Floss.” — Jacob Korg, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington

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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