num_pages: 640
description: In The Mill on the Floss , George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine and an acute critique of Victorian sexual politics. Eliot had no peer when it came to finding the drama at the heart of normal lives lived in tandem with the gigantic rhythms of nature itself, and in The Mill on the Floss she shows us once again how thoroughly the art of fiction can satisfy our deepest mental and emotional cravings.
language: English
title: The Mill on the Floss
titlecomplete: The Mill on the Floss
characters: Maggie Tulliver, Tom Tulliver
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 54059
places: St. Ogg's
publisher: Everyman's Library