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Classic fiction and drama · Secondary / sixth form

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

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Maggie and Tom grow within shared memories but unequal expectations. Read their conflicts through differences in education, obligation and temperament, then compare the narrator’s sympathy with the community’s judgements; neither affection nor principle automatically resolves a difficult choice.

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