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... written first and contains some of the main characters (or their parents).
I haven't read Middlemarch, but I read The Mill on the Floss last year. I read so much contemporary fiction and nonfiction that I find I have to get used to the pace of older books -- but once I do, I really ... Excluding re-reads:
18-19th Century
1. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
2. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
3. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
4. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
... ... Modern Classic novella The Lifted Veil. Short read, unusual, written 1859 after Adam Bede and at the same time as Mill on The Floss this short work was not published until 1878 as the publishers were embarrassed by her references to 'pseudosciences'. How times change. The Mill on The Floss by George Eliot
I'm the Boss by Steve Metzger
Betsy Ross by Alexandra Wallner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss by Kyra Davis ... just wasn't in the right mood last month.
1t. Blindness by José Saramago
1t. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
3. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Honorable Mentions: The Moonstone, The Three Musketeers
Really?: Survivor, Northanger Abbey The Mill on the Floss ****½
by George Eliot
08/16/08
†Notes from the Underground ****½
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
08/17/08
Against Nature ***½
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
08/17/08
The Black Hole War ***
by Leonard Susskind
08/18/08 ... Sequels" and "Literary Debris." I've also doubled up in "Novels by Women" and "Short Stories."
OC: Northanger Abbey, The Mill on the Floss, Notes from Underground, Against Nature EX: The Great Gatsby, Gulag Archipelago Vol. 2, The Black Hole War ... during my daily commute on the ferry from Marin County to San Francisco.
Starting on next monday, I will resume reading The Mill on the Floss in George Eliot: Complete and Unabridged: Four Novels in the same "Library of Essential Writer" series. The four novels are: Adam Bede, The Mill ... ... Stops
Keys to the Kingdom; Mister Monday
Horror--
The Stand
Son of Rosemary
Classics--
Mill on the Floss
Walden
Mystery and Suspense
Irish Whiskey
An Occasion of Sin
Contract With an Angel
Sacred Visions
White Smoke
Da Vinci Code ... Just added some new books to my inventory including The Mill on the Floss, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Introducing Buddha, Stormbreaker and Trawler among others. Link is below or on my profile page.
http://www.bookmooch.com/m/inventory/klarusu
I send 'Worldwide' so it doesn't ... ... during her adolescence, but not as an adult. They would have most likely been in her library however. Cather reviewed The Mill on the Floss in 1897 and Henry James was her first mentor. His works would be included. According to the Drew University Willa Cather collection, Katherine A ... ... of the Seven Gables
25. Cranford
26. Villette
27. North and South
28. Adam Bede
29. The Woman in White
30. The Mill on the Floss
31. Silas Marner
32. Fathers and Sons
33. The Water-Babies
34. Crime and Punishment
35. The Last Chronicle of Barset
36. The Moonstone ... Sunrise With Seamonsters - Paul Theroux
A Bend In The River - V.S. Naipaul
The Mill On The Floss - George Eliot
Swimming In The Congo - Margaret Meyers
South From The Limpopo - Dervla Murphy
The Water Is Wide, Pat Conroy
The Mill on the Floss, Eliot
Hot Water Music, Bukowski
The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman
Life on the Mississippi, Twain The Gas We Pass: the story of farts by Shinta cho
Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnet
Whirlpool by Elizabeth Lowell
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Mirror of her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson From BookMooch:
Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
Early Reviewer:
The Genizah of Shepher by Tamar Yellin ... Middlemarch
2. Northanger Abbey
3. Vanity Fair
4. *Bleak House*
5. The Mill on the Floss
6. *Kristin Lavransdatter*
7. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
8. The Age of Innocence ...
Why not do something like No Name or Ruth? As you say, unimaginative. It would stand to reason that a redo of The Mill on the Floss would be in line somewhere (it's last redo as about the same time as the last Tess). I grabbed up The Mill on the Floss for $1 at Stop & Shop! ... Nickelini, great thread, nice notes! My "English Novel of the 19th Century" class covered Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, The Mill on the Floss, Tess of the D'ubervilles, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The cool thing was that it turned out that we happened to be a small class ... Finished The Mill on The Floss and I'm now reading Possession by A.S. Byatt. Finished reading Daphne, which was quite good, and am now reading The Mill on the Floss. ... and books from her. Also, I have lots of other essays that I've been wroking on, so this has been on my to read list:
The Mill On The Floss
Ramadan - Marjo Buitelaar
Islam en het Dagelijks Leven - Marjo Buitelaar (I actually have this one finished, apart from the two chapters that ... Mill on the Floss by George Eliot & Animal Farm by George Orwell both read in high school, which was terrible because it soured me on those authors that are looked upon as classic authors. It'll be a while before I read anything by them, if ever. ... the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy ****½
Double {complete}
9. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ***½
10. Mill on the Floss by George Eliot ****½
11. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins ****
12. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy **½
13. Vanity Fair by William Makep ... #111 - Okie, I really liked The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, I'd definitely recommend that one.
I'm reading To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams - planning on both parts straight in a row, so this could take me a while. I'm really enjoying the series so far, though. Just ... Yay! :-D I was starting to worry that maybe it was mill on the floss instead. *phew*
My line:
I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
(okay, okay, three sentences instead of one, but you can see why!) ... the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Also, BookMooch blessed me with The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot today.
I am pleased! :-) You should read Middlemarch or The Mill on the Floss ... Wives' Tale. Then there are some from my first round in college and my early married days, including The Financier and The Mill on the Floss. ... Heights - Emily Bronte
3. The Europeans - Henry James 8/05
4. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
5. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
6. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 27/05
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8 non-fiction books that aren't prescribed by my study
... ... as to the voice of one who is deaf and loving. I remember those large dipping willows. I remember the stone bridge."
- The Mill on the Floss. Immaculate, lucid prose. ... Abbey by Jane Austen
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
5. The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
6. The Bostonians by Henry James
7. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodg ... ... got three likely candidates for my next book -- Persuasion, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, and The Mill on the Floss. But judging by how long Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism was my "next" book, it could be just about anything on my jburlinson in List Five Books Parlour Game : Domestic Life (Nov 2, 2007, 6:03pm) ... Weird Medical Case Histories by Rob Myers
Swish! by Bill Martin
The Spitting Image by Jerry Lembcke
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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The Collected Writings by Ambrose Bierce with an introduction by Clifton Fadiman
The Concert by Ismail Kadare
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Man who Made Friends with Himself by Christopher Morley
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Hateship, Friendship, Cou ... ... (this one has been number one in my LT suggestions list for a long time and it is one of the 1001). I'm also going to get The Mill on the Floss and Cloud Atlas. We are reading Cloud Atlas for my book club....I picked it before I learned that it is a book that a majority of readers never ... ... by Neil Belton
The Oxford Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology
Around the world in 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox
The Mill on the Floss and North and South, because I was excited to buy Penguin Popular Classics for £1 each again, and not in the horrible cheap new green covers.
I'm ... ... Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates (about Niagara Falls)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
The Mill on the Floss Can I just say how much I am loving this book? I am! I haven't read anything of George Eliot's since The Mill on the Floss back in grad school. Many thanks for suggesting we share a book, perlle! ... line
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Demian by Hermann Hesse
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
A Mirror for Witches by Esther Forbes
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt ... ... Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
5. Mad Ship - Robin Hobb
6. Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
7. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
February
8. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
9. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
10. Georgiana, ... ... I did skim through a few of the more bizarre hallucinations towards the end. With weightier tomes like Middlemarch and Mill on the Floss I have admitted defeat about a third of the way through. But in general I'm a finisher. Sometimes I get a nice surprise too -- a book that I hate for 100 ... ... Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
5. Mad Ship - Robin Hobb
6. Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
7. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
February
8. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
9. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
10. Georgiana, ... ... use daughters in the title but will focus on books where the relationship of being a daughter is crucial to the plot:
Mill on the Floss
Pride and Prejudice
Sula
The Joy-Luck Club
Jane and Prudence I finished The Mill on the Floss today and am just starting Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It looks fascinating, but I've got an essay due on Friday that unfortunately comes first.
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