The Mill on the Floss Volume I [Easyread Large Edition] (Paperback)

from Greatrakes

This novel has the best characterisation of any novel I've ever read, every motivation rings true, and every act falls from motivation. Eliot seems to have a perfect understanding of why men and women act the way they do: of how they are trapped by the past into certain patterns of behaviour; pat...

from hemlokgang

If you love period literature, moral struggle, and enchanting heroines, you will love this novel by George Eliot. The main characters in this book are loveable, human, heartrending, and ridiculously funny. Eliot wrote this story of what she considered common folks and the struggles they live with...

from quoddy

My personal favourite of all Eliot's works. It seems to me to be one of the very few books of it's time which showed that there is true passion in sibling love. It has the sweetest taste of tragedy I have ever had.

from pgchuis

This has to be my least favourite George Eliot novel. It is just so depressing all the way through. The Tulliver siblings lose their home and social standing due to their father's litigiousness. Then Maggie, unable to marry the man she has promised herself to, falls for the "coxcomb", Stephen Gue...

from tercat

I read this when I was studying in England and I have distinct memories of sitting on benches in Regents Park with my library copy. The copy I was reading was one of those charming small British hardcovers with thin pages. I can practically feel the pages, the sun on my face, and the light wind t...