The Mill on the Floss is the story of two conflicting personalities as they face the hardships of life. Maggie and Tom Tulliver are sister and brother: Maggie is passionate, impulsive, intelligent and often makes mistakes while Tom is practical, unimaginative, judgmental, honest and hardworking. Their father is declared a bankrupt. Tom works hard to pay his father’s debts and restore the family name, while Maggie is oppressed by the limited role offered to women in rural Victorian Britain. As a result of certain unsuitable friendships, she is eventually ostracised by her family and local society.

Set in the English countryside in the first years of the nineteenth century, Silas Marner is a magical story of redemption through human relationships. Silas, a weaver, is betrayed by his best friend and the woman he loves. He loses all faith in humanity and moves to the village of Raveloe. There he lives a solitary life, working and hoarding his gold coins, until one day his gold is stolen.

Wuthering Heights recounts the story of Catherine Earnshaw and the adopted orphan Heathcliff’s love affair and the tragic events which follow.