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Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor and an earnest old playmate who happens to be the son of her father and brother's sworn enemy.
Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon.
About the author
Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), who wrote under the pseudonym George Eliot, was a leading English novelist, journalist and translator. She wrote seven novels, including
Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and
Daniel Deronda.
Summary
Presented here with extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence.
Foreword
Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon.
Additional text
No writer ever lived who had anything like her power of manifold, but disinterested and impartially observant sympathy. If Sophocles or Cervantes had lived in the light of our culture. George Eliot might have had a rival.
