The Mill on the Floss (Annotated)

George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is a profound study of family, memory, gender, and moral conflict in provincial England. Centered on Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom, the novel traces the pressures of kinship, education, debt, and desire within the changing world of the nineteenth-century Midlands. Eliot's style combines psychological realism, ethical reflection, and richly observed social...