The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot (Adapter)

Maggie Tulliver, impulsive and imaginative, lives in a small English village with her family. She loves her brother deeply, but he does not understand her, so she befriends a boy who her brother disapproves of, leading to tragic consequences.

Genres: Classics

560 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1860

About the author

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

Reviews

[Veda Adriaenssens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found this Penguin Reader for €1 in a little book village in my country called Redu. Quick and entertaining read. I hadn't read a Penguin Reader since my third year of high school, but it's nice to just get a basic overview in very little time of what certain classic novels are about. On the other side, of course this does not fully encompass the author's brilliant writing and reduces the story to the mere plot developments. I am a literature student with little time on my hands for extracurricular reading though, so for €1 this was a gem and pretty fun!

[night court book · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Jorge Amadeu · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[arshida · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay, the story wasent that interesting it didn’t catch my attention that much but it was ok