The Mill on the Floss
- 548
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
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Our view
George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss” is a rich, searching novel of family and growing up in a nineteenth-century provincial town. Some readers grow deeply attached to Maggie Tulliver and feel for her as family and neighbours hem her in, while finding her brother Tom hard to forgive, whatever sympathy Eliot asks for him. Readers who like a long Victorian novel built around character will find its more than five hundred pages well spent.
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About the book
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published, in three volumes, on 4 April 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons. The first American edition was published, in the same year, by Harper & Brothers, New York.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 72 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 8 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 64 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Mill on the Floss?
It has 548 pages — longer than 90% of the ranked books in Classics.
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