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The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s semiautobiographical masterpiece—a deeply moving portrait of family, intellect, and the impossible choices that shape a woman’s life. 
Set in the rural English countryside of the 1820s–1830s, the novel follows Maggie Tulliver, a passionate, fiercely intelligent young woman trapped between her devotion to family and her longing for freedom. Her brother Tom, rigid and unforgiving, embodies the strict moral codes of their provincial world—codes that condemn Maggie’s every transgression. Between them stands the Dorlcote Mill, the family home on the River Floss, whose fate mirrors their own. 
As Maggie grows, she is torn between two men: Philip Wakem, the gentle, crippled son of her father’s enemy, who offers her intellectual kinship and quiet devotion; and Stephen Guest, the handsome, charming heir to a local fortune, who awakens a dangerous passion that threatens to destroy everything. Caught between brother and suitors, between duty and desire, between the world’s judgment and her own heart, Maggie’s struggle for self-acceptance ends in one of the most unforgettable climaxes in English literature. 
First published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss shocked Victorian readers with its frank psychological realism and its unflinching critique of how society crushes women of intelligence and spirit. Today, it stands as George Eliot’s most emotionally devastating novel—a timeless tragedy of love, pride, and the painful cost of being born ahead of one’s time. 
This audiobook is based on the 1860 public domain text. Produced and narrated by Doushu, with AI assistance.

Durata: circa 21 ore (21:00:57)
Data di pubblicazione: 05/05/2026; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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