The Mill on the Floss

A clever, passionate girl grows up bound to a brother she adores and a provincial world that cannot contain her.

At a glance George Eliot's semi-autobiographical novel is a tender, tragic study of family and… By the banks of a slow English river, a bright and hungry-hearted girl loves fiercely… George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss follows her from childhood toward a reckoning the… What it's about Maggie Tulliver grows up at her family's riverside mill, intelligent and…

Maggie Tulliver grows up at her family's riverside mill, intelligent and impulsive in a community that prizes neither quality in a girl.