Maggie Tulliver is different from the rest of her family. She is tall and beautiful, and she is clever. While Maggie's brother Tom works hard so that he can take over the flour mill which their father manages, Maggie's mind is on other matters. Maggie loves the son of her father's greatest enemy. Secretly she meets him and they talk of books and art. Later Maggie meets the man expected to marry her cousin Lucy. But he falls in love with Maggie. Read this romantic and tragic story and discover Maggie's fate.