• 导读
  • The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. A conversation between Flora Ackroyd and James Sheppard in Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: “That pen that George Eliot wrote The Mill on the Floss with—that sort of thing—well, it’s only just a pen after all. If you’re really keen on George Eliot, why not get The Mill on the Floss in a cheap edition and read it? ... I suppose you never read such old out-of-date stuff, Miss Flora? ... You’re wrong, Dr Sheppard. I love The Mill on the Floss.”

  • 内容简介
  • 《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》是乔治·艾略特的第二部鸿篇巨著,是艾略特自传性最强的一部小说。讲述了弗洛斯河旁圣奥格镇上磨坊主杜利弗因欠债而发生诉讼纠纷,败诉破产后其子女汤姆和玛吉的生活发生了重大的变化。经过几年的努力,聪明而勤奋的汤姆终于攒够了钱还清债务并买回了磨坊,但玛吉的爱情却因汤姆的反对而频遭挫折。当两人在危难之中和解时,凶猛的洪水却最终将兄妹俩吞没,但他们深深的手足之情却不能不让人感动。

    Introduction by and notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York, this novel, based on George Eliot’s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.

  • 作者简介
  • 乔治·艾略特,原名玛丽·安·伊万斯(Mary Ann Evans),出生在华威郡一个中产阶级商人家庭。19世纪英语文学最有影响力的小说家之一,也是世界文学史上最伟大的小说家之一。与萨克雷、狄更斯、勃朗特姐妹齐名。

    乔治·艾略特是位描写的大师,她不仅擅长描写人物的外貌,而且擅长描写人物的内心。这些成段的细致入微的描写把她的人物一下子拉到了读者的面前——真实而亲切。

    Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819–22 December 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

    She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot’s life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.

  • 目录
    • BOOK 1
    • BOOK 2
    • BOOK 3
    • BOOK 4
    • BOOK 5
    • BOOK 6
    • BOOK 7