There is no new thing under the sun. This novel proves that old books carry depths we desperately need.
If you don’t want to know the truth that the road goes uphill all the way, avoid reading this. But if you want honesty about choices and suffering, this is the book. Cathartic.

This could be retitled the Ecstasy and the Agony for what follows in George Eliot's ( Mary Ann Evans) superb novel, not surprisingly since I've read others of her excellent books. An ordinary setting just before the Victorian age of late 1820s England, in a small fictional rural port town St. Ogg's (modeled after Gainsborough) by a river where inevitably trade is how people there lived and survived. A routine story (but not) about two siblings older brother Tom Tulliver and younger sister Maggie...

Myślałam, że będą 3 gwiazdki, ale omg ja lubię takie zakończenia.

سازمان‌بهداشت جهانی، یا اگه وجود داره؛ سازمان تشخیص بیماری های واگیردار، باید منو استخدام رسمی با حقوق بالا کنن.
یعنی تا الان هربار هربیماری اپیدمی شده، هرررررچی، من اولین نفر مبتلا شدم. از اول کرونا هم توی هر پیک من گرفتم. میتونید ازین به بعد مستعان ۱۱۰ صدام‌کنید.
این کتاب رو هم توی کرونایی شدن گوش دادم و تموم کردم. جذاب بود. اولین کتاب از الیوت که خوندم یعنی شنیدم.‌ میدونم کتاب مهمیه و امیدوارم بهتر که شدم بتونم بیام درموردش ریویوو بنویسم. فعلا همین قدر بگم کتاب جالبیه

A reread that I loved all over again!

I had heard of George Eliot as a classic to read. My first surprise was to discover that, like George Sand, George Eliot was, in fact, a woman. But that wasn't the only good surprise. The writing is modern while remaining classic, of Proust before the hour. Like its author, the theme is avant-garde, drawing heavily from his life to inform the main character. The actors in the book are not Manichean, but complex, allowing us to identify with their destiny all the better. With a stunning finale, t...

Pese a mi apariencia infantil e inocente, esta es ya mi tercera incursión con esta autora. La primera, no sé qué tienen las primeras veces, fue una experiencia gloriosa: Middlemarch. La segunda empezó muy bien, pero acabó de forma algo decepcionante (no fuiste tú, Eliot, fui yo): Silas Marner. A pesar de ello, no le retiré mi confianza y decidí darle una nueva oportunidad con El molino de Floss.Me gustó mucho el inicio, con esa ironía de guante blanco (con pintitas, si acaso) que se suele gastar...

There are characters in literature who are unforgettable. Different readers will place different characters in the unforgettable category but I'd imagine there are a few characters who would turn up on the lists of a great many readers: Anna Karenina, for example, Heathcliff, perhaps, Don Quixote most definitely. You've probably already thought of names to add to the list, other famous literary characters I've either forgotten about or never heard of, but no matter the exalted status of the char...

Upon completion of the The Mill on the Floss, I realized that I had just finished something monumental—a staggeringly amazing literary achievement. This novel, written by ‘George Eliot’ (Mary Anne, or Marian Evans), and first published by Blackwood and Sons in 1860, could have just as easily been titled, “Pride and Prejudice” had not that title been put to use already. Some twenty-four hours after finishing this book, I am coming to the conclusion that Eliot may, in fact, represent the absolute ...

Ah, the classic tale of Maggie Tulliver and the four men she loves. How they destroy her, how she destroys them, and how they all end up irredemptively miserable. Or dead. In most cases, both.So why read it? Because it's beautiful. Because it opens up your heart and mind in powerful ways. Because you will LOVE and truly feel for Maggie. Or just because you want to read one of those stories that makes you think, "See... my life isn't that bad!"Maggie is amazingly intelligent, but she can't be edu...