'Tom and Maggie Tulliver' are the central characters in which of George Eliot's novels?
"years later, Dickens's ""Great Expectations"" contains many Hamlet-like plot elements: it is driven by revenge-motivated actions, contains ghost-like characters (Abel Magwitch and Miss Havisham), and focuses on the hero's guilt. Academic Alexander Welsh notes that ""Great Expectations"" is an ""autobiographical novel"" and ""anticipates psychoanalytic readings of ""Hamlet"" itself"". About the same time, George Eliot's ""The Mill on the Floss"" was published, introducing Maggie Tulliver ""who is explicitly compared with Hamlet"" though ""with a reputation for sanity"". L. Frank Baum's first published short story was ""They Played a New Hamlet"" (1895). When Baum had been touring New York State in the"
"for Catholic Emancipation). The novel includes autobiographical elements and reflects the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) experienced while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes. Maggie Tulliver is the protagonist and the story begins when she is 9 years old, 13 years into her parents' marriage. Her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem (a hunchbacked, sensitive and intellectual friend) and with Stephen Guest (a vivacious young socialite in St Ogg's and assumed fiancé of Maggie's cousin Lucy Deane) constitute the most significant narrative threads. Tom and Maggie"
"George Eliot's character Tom Tulliver in ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), all refer to the line ""My Name is Norval"". Young George Osborne recites it, eliciting tears from his aunt, in Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair."" I1847-48) p. 504. Harry Walmers in Dickens' ""The Boots at the Holly Tree Inn"" also refers to it: There is also another reference to Norval in ""Nicholas Nickleby"", when Wackford Squeers, while in custody, refers to his son as ""a young Norval"", supposedly the darling of the town. Rev. George B. Cheever, American divine and abolitionist, references it in his 1857 broadside ""God Against Slavery""."
"have a close yet complex bond, which continues throughout the novel. Their relationship is coloured by Maggie's desire to recapture the unconditional love of her father before his death. Tom's pragmatic and reserved nature clashes with Maggie's idealism and fervor for intellectual gains and experience. Various family crises, including bankruptcy, Mr Tulliver's rancorous relationship with Philip Wakem's father, which results in the loss of the mill and Mr Tulliver's untimely death, intensify Tom's and Maggie's differences and highlight their love for each other. To help his father repay his debts, Tom leaves school to enter a life of business. He"
"Tom & Viv Tom & Viv is a 1994 period drama film directed by Brian Gilbert, based on the 1984 play by the same name by British playwright Michael Hastings about the early love life of American poet T. S. Eliot. The film stars Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton and Nickolas Grace. The film tells the story of the relationship between T. S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. They were married in 1915 after a brief courtship, and separated in 1933 though they never divorced. The film received mixed reviews, holding a 33% 'rotten'"
"as Tom, he was the namesake of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Stearns. Eliot's childhood infatuation with literature can be ascribed to several factors. Firstly, he had to overcome physical limitations as a child. Struggling from a congenital double inguinal hernia, he could not participate in many physical activities and thus was prevented from socializing with his peers. As he was often isolated, his love for literature developed. Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books and was absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. In his memoir of"
"the old mill, she sets out with him to rescue Lucy Deane and her family. In a brief tender moment, the brother and sister are reconciled from all past differences. When their boat capsizes, the two drown in an embrace, thus giving the book its Biblical epigraph: ""In their death they were not divided"". Like other novels by George Eliot, ""The Mill on the Floss"" articulates the tension between circumstances and the spiritual energies of individual characters struggling against those circumstances. A certain determinism is at play throughout the novel, from Mr Tulliver's grossly imprudent inability to keep himself from"
"introducing Maggie Tulliver ""who is explicitly compared with Hamlet"". Scholar Marianne Novy suggests that Eliot ""demythologises Hamlet by imagining him with a reputation for sanity"", notwithstanding his frequent monologues and moodiness towards Ophelia. Novy also suggests Mary Wollstonecraft as an influence on Eliot, critiquing ""the trivialisation of women in contemporary society"". ""Hamlet"" has played ""a relatively small role"" in the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays by women writers, ranging from ""Ophelia, The Fair Rose of Elsinore"" in Mary Cowden Clarke's 1852 ""The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines"", to Margaret Atwood's 1994 ""Gertrude Talks Back""—in her 1994 collection of short stories ""Good Bones"
"Harris). Tom & Viv Tom & Viv is a 1994 period drama film directed by Brian Gilbert, based on the 1984 play by the same name by British playwright Michael Hastings about the early love life of American poet T. S. Eliot. The film stars Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton and Nickolas Grace. The film tells the story of the relationship between T. S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. They were married in 1915 after a brief courtship, and separated in 1933 though they never divorced. The film received mixed reviews, holding a 33%"
"scientist and explorer, finds adventure with newspaperman Whiz Walton and a gargantuan Texan named Gulliver. A double spiral symbol, designed by Tom's father, appears on the spine of the books, and sometimes figures in the plot. In the first book, Tom discovers that his father, long believed dead, may still be alive, and, in the second, Tom, Whiz, and Gulliver travel to Central America in search of him. The third and fourth books are also loosely connected, after which each book stands alone. The plots usually involve some kind of criminal activity thwarted by Tom and his pals. Tom Quest"
"Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), ""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" (1894), and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"" (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, ""Huck and Tom Among the Indians"", ""Schoolhouse Hill"" and ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"". While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"" has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. Tom Sawyer is a boy of about"
"(1965), and ""The Owl Service"" (1967). The latter work is an adaptation of the myth of Blodeuwedd from the ""Mabinogion"", set in modern Wales, and for it Garner won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. Mary Norton wrote ""The Borrowers"" (1952), featuring tiny people who borrow from humans. Dodie Smith's ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" was published in 1956. Philippa Pearce's ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" (1958) has him opening the garden door at night and entering into a different age. The heroine of ""Charlotte Sometimes"" by Penelope Farmer (1969)"
"Silas Marner Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues"
"time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series. Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"", the story is told using the first-person narrative voice"
"the 1870s with the works of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast—in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884). Twain's style changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Henry James (1843–1916) was a major American novelist of the late"
"Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"", the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. It is a sequel, set in the"
"Tlingit of whom Tom is very fond. Nancy Bigears, knows the romance cannot continue because Tom Venn is unable to comprehend the fishing rights and salmon conservancy issues created by his cannery. Nancy Bigears father, who lived across the inlet from the cannery is now prohibited from fishing on his ancestral lands. At the end of the chapter, the reader learns that Tom marries Lydia, and that Nancy marries Ah Ting, a Chinese man who was once employed as a foreman at the salmon cannery before striking out on his own. In 1919, a government official arrives in a small"
"is ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" by Philippa Pearce, the 1958 Carnegie Medal winner, where the protagonist has dreamlike encounters at different points in time. Earlier there was Ronald Welch's ""The Gauntlet"" (1951, back to the Welsh Marches in the 14th century), and Hilda Lewis's perennially popular ""The Ship that Flew"" (1939), which uses time travel to convey characters to the age of Norse gods and heroes. In Alison Uttley's ""A Traveller in Time"" (1939), the girl slips back into the period when Queen Elizabeth I of England has imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots in Derbyshire. In Elinor Lyon's ""The Golden Shore"""
"video blog.. The opening lyrics of the song ""How Soon is Now?"" by The Smiths were adapted from ""Middlemarch"" (""I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular""). Middlemarch Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), first published in eight instalments (volumes) in 1871–72. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite"
"Prince of Tyre"" was based off an adaptation of the ancient Greek novel ""Apollonius of Tyre"" found in John Gower's ""Confessio Amantis"". John Milton's epic poem ""Paradise Lost"" is written using a similar style to the two Homeric epics. It also makes frequent allusions to figures from classical literature and mythology, using them as symbols to convey a Christian message. Lucian's ""A True Story"" was part of the inspiration for Jonathan Swift's novel ""Gulliver's Travels"". ""Bulfinch's Mythology"", a book on Greek mythology published in 1867 and aimed at a popular audience, was described by Carl J. Richard as ""one of"
"eventually finds a measure of success, restoring the family's former estate. Maggie languishes in the impoverished Tulliver home, her intellectual aptitude wasted in her socially isolated state. She passes through a period of intense spirituality, during which she renounces the world, spurred by Thomas à Kempis's ""The Imitation of Christ"". This renunciation is tested by a renewed friendship with Philip Wakem, with whom she had developed a friendship while he and Tom were students. Against the wishes of Tom and her father - who both despise the Wakems - Maggie secretly meets with Philip and they go for long walks"
"Twilight, an orphan great grey owl who learned his survival instincts from the ""Orphan School of Tough Learning"", Digger, a burrowing owl, who lost his family to the St. Aggie's marauders and is extremely sensitive and philosophical, and the old Mrs. Plithiver, Soren's former nest-maid western blind snake. With the help of Hortense's two bald eagle friends named Streak and Zan, they kill two of St. Aggie's patrols, the cousins Jatt and Jutt the long-eared owls. The four owls form a band and fly away in search of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where legend says the great knight-owls live who"
"when he wrote ""Tomorrow, When the War Began"" he does see many of his memories of the novel reflected in his work. Ellie, the Tomorrow series central protagonist was modelled after the ""courageous and resourceful"" farm girl Norah from Mary Grant Bruce’s Billabong series of novels. The series follows the fortunes of the Linton family, the owners of a large cattle station in Victoria, during first half of the 20th century. In the Tomorrow Series it is implied that Ellie is the great-granddaughter of Norah’s brother Jim. The character was also inspired by Charlotte Austin, a student who Marsden had"
"you between the covers of a book some of these days, Tom.’ ‘Go ahead, Sam,’ I said, ‘but don’t disgrace my name.’"" Twain himself said the character sprang from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs (who died in 1907), William Bowen (who died in 1893) and Twain; however Twain later changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his imagination, but as Robert Graysmith says, ""The great appropriator liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile mind."" Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel ""The Adventures"
"his epic poem about his New Jersey hometown, ""Paterson"", Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes, in addition to many others. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir ""Life on the Mississippi"" and the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Twain's style – influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous"
"Tom & Viv (play) Tom & Viv is a play written by English playwright Michael Hastings. The play is based on the real life of T. S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. To write the play, Hastings spent many months conducting interviews with friends and family of the Eliot's that were still alive and read through the letters left behind from the family. The play received some controversy over painting T.S. Eliot in a less than flattering light over his treatment of his wife while she was in poor health. Hastings died in 2011. The play begins with"
"Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including ""The Waste Land"" (1922), ""The Hollow Men"" (1925), ""Ash Wednesday"" (1930), and ""Four Quartets"" (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly ""Murder in the Cathedral"" (1935) and ""The Cocktail Party"" (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, ""for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"". The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family with roots in Old and New England. Thomas Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian"
"Thackeray and Charles Dickens (in 1863 and 1870, respectively), Eliot was ""generally recognised as the greatest living English novelist"" at the time of the novel's final publication. ""Middlemarch"" is centred on the lives of the residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards—the years preceding the 1832 Reform Act. The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode. The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate."
"the book, far from allowing himself to be exploited, Tom stands up for his beliefs and is grudgingly admired even by his enemies. Eliza is a slave and personal maid to Mrs. Shelby who escapes to the North with her five-year-old son Harry after he is sold to Mr. Haley. Her husband, George, eventually finds Eliza and Harry in Ohio and emigrates with them to Canada, then France and finally Liberia. The character Eliza was inspired by an account given at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati by John Rankin to Stowe's husband Calvin, a professor at the school. According to"
"of his brother, the Duke of Clarence (King William IV). It incorporates contemporary medicine and examines the reactionary views of a settled community facing unwelcome change. Eliot began writing the two pieces that would form ""Middlemarch"" in the years 1869–70 and completed the novel in 1871. Although initial reviews were mixed, it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great novels in English. ""Middlemarch"" originates in two unfinished pieces that Eliot worked on during the years 1869 and 1870: the novel ""Middlemarch"" (which focused on the character of Lydgate) and the long story ""Miss Brooke"""
"best-loved works are set in the imaginary west country county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) was a major novelist of the mid-Victorian period. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871-2), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail, with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict, that has led to comparisons with Tolstoy. George Meredith (1828–1909) is best remembered for"
"Middlemarch Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), first published in eight instalments (volumes) in 1871–72. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite comic elements, ""Middlemarch"" is a work of realism encompassing historical events: the 1832 Reform Act, the beginnings of the railways, and the death of King George IV and succession"
"to the park and hands to Will during his face-off with Marco, thus revealing herself as the Lady of the Lake. Ellie's parents care about her despite being an embarrassment at times. The book has twenty-nine chapters and each chapter starts with a quote, which relatively relates to the content of the chapter, from Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous poem about Elaine the Lady of Shalott. There is a subtle foreshadowing in the book's first chapter that points to Ellie being the Lady of the Lake, as opposed to the Lady of Shalott. Her home state, Minnesota, is known as ""the"