Book description
With an essay by Walter Allen.
If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?
Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of
grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery
spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her
narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother Tom,
their fates are played out on an epic scale. George Eliot drew on her
own frustrated rural upbringing to create one of the great novels of
childhood, and one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher,
journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first
stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life,
co-editing the liberal journal The Westminster Review for three
years and living for twenty years with the married man and philosopher
George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the
nineteenth century.
Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda
are also published in the Penguin English Library.
