Strong-willed, compassionate, and intensely loyal, Maggie seeks personal happiness and inner peace but risks rejection and ostracism in her close-knit community. 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. 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. 'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' Re-set text retains the defnitive Clarendon text and improves print appearance.Introduction by Juliette Atkinson, informed by the latest critical and scholarly thinking on the novel.Use the definitive Clarendon text of the novel.Full notes identify allusions and the significance in particular of literary references, and also pay attention to significant textual changes between manuscript and successive editions.It examines the importance of reading in the novel, its preoccupation with gender, and complex relationship with feminism. New introduction emphasizes Eliot's significance as a writer of fiction, and the literary qualities that have sometimes been overshadowed by her interest in philosophical ideas.

A compelling story of a young girl's growth to adulthood, and the conflicts that arise from her growing independence.

A new edition of one of Eliot's best-loved novels whose central figure, Maggie Tulliver, is one of English literature's great female characters.

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