Tom and Maggie Tulliver

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Mr. Tulliver wants his son Tom to have an education that will prepare him for business and help him understand legal affairs. At Dorlcote Mill, this ambition becomes a family discussion full of competing opinions, household worries and sharp observations. Maggie, Tom's lively younger sister, loves books, resents her sewing and responds fiercely to any suggestion that her brother might behave badly.

Adapted for young readers from George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, the story follows the children's early experiences through school plans, family gatherings and quarrels. In one episode, Maggie pushes Lucy into the mud, meets Tom's anger and decides to run away. The interest lies in these small events and the large feelings behind them: loyalty, jealousy, wounded pride and the wish to be understood. Readers can explore Eliot's family world through a shorter narrative focused on childhood.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876).