The Mill on the Floss

Name: The Mill on the Floss
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: George Eliot
ISBN: 9781461810254

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Jill Tanner

Unabridged: 23 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/29/2011

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Family Life

Synopsis

First published in 1861, The Mill on the Floss was a best-seller in its day. This classic novel explores the traditions and moral expectations of an English rural community. Maggie Tulliver is a girl of uncontrollable romantic ideals. But her brother, along with most of society, cannot accept her brashness and vitality. Narrator Jill Tanner gracefully unfolds this tragic tale of love and loss.

About George Eliot

George Eliot is the masculine pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's magazine, followed by such novels as The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch. Her work was popular with critics and the public alike, and in later years her novels were especially valued for their detailed portrayals of rural English life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) on June 14, 2024

Upon completion of the The Mill on the Floss, I realized that I had just finished something monumental—a staggeringly amazing literary achievement. This novel, written by ‘George Eliot’ (Mary Anne, or Marian Evans), and first published by Blackwood and Sons in 1860, could have just as easily been ti......more

Goodreads review by Henry on September 03, 2024

This could be retitled the Ecstasy and the Agony for what follows in George Eliot's ( Mary Ann Evans) superb novel, not surprisingly since I've read others of her excellent books. An ordinary setting just before the Victorian age of late 1820s England, in a small fictional rural port town St. Ogg's......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on June 14, 2023

Myślałam, że będą 3 gwiazdki, ale omg ja lubię takie zakończenia.......more