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The Mill on the Floss
Classic fiction
The Mill on the Floss
Intelligent and impulsive Maggie Tulliver grows up beside the River Floss in painful contrast to her conventional brother Tom. Their family's financial collapse intensifies Tom's rigidity and limits Maggie's choices, even as her hunger for knowledge, love, and a larger life repeatedly brings her into conflict with duty. Adult attachments to Philip Wakem and Stephen Guest make private longing inseparable from loyalty, reputation, and sibling judgment. Deeply sympathetic and tragic, this novel suits a rain-dark weekend for readers who want complicated brother-sister bonds, constrained ambition, rural change, and a heroine whose emotional generosity cannot protect her from society's narrow terms.
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Death and grief, including parental death; sibling and family conflict with emotional cruelty; sexism and misogyny; infidelity/romantic scandal; period racial slurs and prejudice; fatal flooding/drowning.
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Tailor's Raspberry Lemonade
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- 1 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice ↗
- 1/2 oz raspberry syrup ↗
- 5 oz cold water
- Ice
How to mix it
- Stir lemon juice and raspberry syrup with cold water. Serve over ice.
- Garnish: Lemon wheel and raspberries.
- Glassware: Highball glass.
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- 5 oz chilled Prosecco
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- Garnish: Food-grade edible glitter.
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