About this book
From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences of renunciation.
Subjects
Brothers and sistersWomen clergyInfanticideOpen Library Staff PicksVendettaFictionWater millsLoss (Psychology)Conflict of generationsCarpentersYoung womenClassic LiteratureSocial life and customsManners and customsReadersEliot, george, 1819-1880England, fictionChildren's fictionBoys, fictionBrothers and sisters, fictionYoung women, fictionBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, psychologicalFiction, romance, general