The Mill on the Floss

Sep 10, 2025 7:31 AM

Author:George Eliot

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?

Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother Tom, their fates are played out on an epic scale. George Eliot drew on her own frustrated rural upbringing to create one of the great novels of childhood, and one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.

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Reviews

This book is aimed at teenage lads but it's such a great read the whole family will enjoy it

—— The Sun

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—— Jenny Davis , Wondrous Reads

A wonderful novel with intrigue, love, mystery and tender, audacious and clean-cut characters

—— Mario Vargas Llosa

A tale of frustrated dreams and dreams come true, embodying all the perverse charm of what time, implacably, has swept away ... Don't pass it by

—— El Mundo

A literary cocktail that mixes adventure, espionage, glamour, aristocracy and passion

—— La Vanguardia

A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue. Sira Quiroga - the seamstress - won't be easily forgotten

—— Juan Gómez-Jurado, author of , The Moses Expedition

A fun romp

—— Good Housekeeping

Devour it

—— Marie Claire

First-rate fiction . . . sharp, with great empathy

—— San Francisco Weekly

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