George Eliot's realist masterpiece, with an introduction by Jennifer Egan

Presented here with extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence.

George Eliot's masterful portrayal of rural nineteenth-century society, with a new introduction by Professor Kathryn Hughes.

Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch a concept of life and society free of the past's dogma yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age.