The Mill on the Floss (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

The Easton Press, 1980. Reissue. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Manning, Wray. Edges of endpapers slightly faded, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1980 Full-Leather. xv, [3], 472 pp. 8vo. Orange full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by David Daiches, color plates by Wray Manning. "The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the River Floss near the village of St. Oggs in the United Kingdom, evidently in the 1820s after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the Reform Act of 1832. Both the river and the village are fictional. The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie (Inventory #: 2294864)