The Mill on the Floss

Author(s): George Eliot

Fiction

In this story the author recreates her own childhood through the story of the gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoilt, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this comic novel combines vivid images of family life with a portrait of the heroine.

General Information

  • : 9780140620276
  • : 53783
  • : 44793
  • : 0.3
  • : 24 February 1994
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : George Eliot
  • : Paperback
  • : 544

More About The Product

Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the Westminster Review. In 1857 she published Scenes of a Clerical Life, the first of 8 novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot', including The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.