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  Summary:                     Animal Farm  At Manor Farm in England, Farmer Jones swills whiskey and abuses his animals—including pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep, goats, horses, and dogs. One evening, Old Major, a wise pig who is dying, sows the seeds of revolution. He tells his barnyard comrades that they can enjoy peace and prosperity, every animal sharing equally in the benefits of the farm, if they overthrow Jones and run the farm themselves. The old pig even teaches them a rallying song: ―Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,/ Beasts of every land and clime,/ Hearken to my joyful tidings / Of the golden future time. / Soon or late the day is coming,/ Tyrant Man shall be o’erthrown, / And the fruitful fields of England / Shall be trod by beasts alone. ‖    Days later, after Old Major dies, the animals plot the rebellion, led by the most intelligent among them, the pigs—in particular, Snowball, Napoleon, and ...

 Summary:                    Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss, novel by George Eliot, published in  three volumes  in 1860.  Book 1:  Boy and Girl: The tragedy of the Tulliver family is told by an omniscient male narrator who appears to have a female sensibility and is extremely sympathetic toward the main character, Maggie. The Tulliver family consists of nine-year-old Maggie and her older brother Tom, almost 13, together with their father, who owns Dorlcote Mill on the tributary of the Floss River, and his wife, Bessy Tulliver, formerly a Dodson. Mrs. Tulliver lacks warmth and empathy as a mother and favors her son, and she regularly criticizes Maggie, whose looks she finds objectionable—she is dark and doesn't take after the blonde Dodsons—and whose passionate emotions and depth of intelligence she cannot relate to nor understand. The Dodson sisters, particularly Jane Glegg and Sophy Pullet, als...