The Mill on the Floss
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  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409059639
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

The Mill on the Floss

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Paperback
5 May 2003
EBook
23 May 2012
EBook
1 Feb 2011
EBook
5 May 2003
Audiobook
3 Sep 2020
Audiobook
21 May 2020
Audiobook
26 Apr 2012
Paperback
11 May 2012
Paperback
1 Apr 2010
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15 Nov 1992
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A powerful and dramatic tragedy about the struggle between head and heart


Discover George Eliot’s powerful tragedy about the struggle between head and heart.

**As Heard on BBC Radio 4**

Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both wilful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict, particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments. George Eliot's story of a brother and sister bound together by their errors and affections is told with tenderness, energy and a profound understanding of human nature.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA LEWYCKA

'George Eliot is the greatest British novelist of any age' Daily Mail
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409059639
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624
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Praise for The Mill on the Floss

A rich, gripping tragedy...narrative energy and emotional intelligence

Mail on Sunday

If I had an imaginary friend, Maggie was it. I loved her, I laughed with her, I agonised about her problems, I cried over her . . . and I still do...George Eliot's understanding of human nature is profound...the greatest British novelist of any age

Daily Mail

It was my first really grown-up book, but it is the book that wrings my heart and I feel I bump into elements of it all my life

Independent

Maggie's dilemma is one that pervades much of Eliot's writing: the dilemma of head versus heart, the woman's struggle to be taken seriously as an intellect while coping with the demands of uninvited passion... Eliot dealt in human relationships and she was a mistress of the art

The Times
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