The Mill on the Floss

Name: The Mill on the Floss
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: George Eliot
ISBN: 9781843796053

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Laura Paton

Unabridged: 20 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 10/01/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Maggie Tulliver has two lovers: Philip Wakem, son of her father’s enemy, and Stephen Guest, already promised to her cousin. But the love she wants most in the world is that of her brother, Tom. Maggie’s struggle against her passionate and sensual nature leads her to a deeper understanding and to eventual tragedy.

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