This title is presented with an introduction by Marina Lewycka Maggie & Tom Tulliver are both willful passionate children & their relationship has always been tempestuous As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss Tom's self-righteous stubbornness & Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments George Eliot's story of a brother & sister bound together by their errors & affections is told here with tenderness energy & a profound understanding of human nature