The Mill on the Floss in Around the World in 80 Books

Aug 21, 2022 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it

Shelves: the-classics-club, fiction, relationships, strong-girls-strong-women, england

When you read a chapter-a-day on a book for three months, you tend to get fiercely attached to the characters, either positively or negatively. That's what happened to me with The Mill on the Floss.

I liked Maggie from page one. She is everything I love in a character.

Her brother? Her mother? Even her father? Not so much.

All of these people as well as her extended family members and her fellow townsfolk forced Maggie into a box that limited her in many ways. Maggie was judged from the very start ...more

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Feb 06, 2018 Ted Dettweiler rated it really liked it

If you don’t mind novels that end up in a kind of troubling, unresolved way then, read this. Artful character development. The main character’s relationship to her brother is said to be almost autobiographical of George Eliot’s (remember, a woman author’s pseudonym) relationship to her brother.

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Jan 02, 2012 MichelleCH rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, 1001, group-reads, victorian, my-ebooks, victorians-challenge

I think it will take me a few days to process this novel. Eliot brilliantly made me feel, care and relate to the characters. The novel follows Maggie and her family the Tullivers through happiness, loss and redemption. I absolutely loved Maggie but her striving to goodness drove me crazy. As I said I need more time to wrap my mind around the ending which was so devestating to me.

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Apr 09, 2018 Christi added it

Shelves: couldnt-finish

It is a slow read. The detailed description of the land is beautiful but I just can't deal with the slow movement now. Maybe I will try it again later. ...more

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