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Literature/George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot, 1860

George Eliot’s novel of the clever, passionate Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom, the children of the miller of Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss, and of Maggie’s struggle between her own longings and her duty to her family.

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Contents

Book First: Boy and Girl

  1. Chapter IOutside Dorlcote Mill
  2. Chapter IIMr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom
  3. Chapter IIIMr Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom
  4. Chapter IVTom Is Expected
  5. Chapter VTom Comes Home
  6. Chapter VIThe Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
  7. Chapter VIIEnter the Aunts and Uncles
  8. Chapter VIIIMr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
  9. Chapter IXTo Garum Firs
  10. Chapter XMaggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected
  11. Chapter XIMaggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow
  12. Chapter XIIMr and Mrs Glegg at Home
  13. Chapter XIIIMr Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life

Book Second: School-Time

  1. Chapter ITom’s “First Half”
  2. Chapter IIThe Christmas Holidays
  3. Chapter IIIThe New Schoolfellow
  4. Chapter IV“The Young Idea”
  5. Chapter VMaggie’s Second Visit
  6. Chapter VIA Love-Scene
  7. Chapter VIIThe Golden Gates Are Passed

Book Third: The Downfall

  1. Chapter IWhat Had Happened at Home
  2. Chapter IIMrs Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods
  3. Chapter IIIThe Family Council
  4. Chapter IVA Vanishing Gleam
  5. Chapter VTom Applies His Knife to the Oyster
  6. Chapter VITending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife
  7. Chapter VIIHow a Hen Takes to Stratagem
  8. Chapter VIIIDaylight on the Wreck
  9. Chapter IXAn Item Added to the Family Register

Book Fourth: The Valley of Humiliation

  1. Chapter IA Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
  2. Chapter IIThe Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns
  3. Chapter IIIA Voice from the Past

Book Fifth: Wheat and Tares

  1. Chapter IIn the Red Deeps
  2. Chapter IIAunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb
  3. Chapter IIIThe Wavering Balance
  4. Chapter IVAnother Love-Scene
  5. Chapter VThe Cloven Tree
  6. Chapter VIThe Hard-Won Triumph
  7. Chapter VIIA Day of Reckoning

Book Sixth: The Great Temptation

  1. Chapter IA Duet in Paradise
  2. Chapter IIFirst Impressions
  3. Chapter IIIConfidential Moments
  4. Chapter IVBrother and Sister
  5. Chapter VShowing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster
  6. Chapter VIIllustrating the Laws of Attraction
  7. Chapter VIIPhilip Re-enters
  8. Chapter VIIIWakem in a New Light
  9. Chapter IXCharity in Full-Dress
  10. Chapter XThe Spell Seems Broken
  11. Chapter XIIn the Lane
  12. Chapter XIIA Family Party
  13. Chapter XIIIBorne Along by the Tide
  14. Chapter XIVWaking

Book Seventh: The Final Rescue

  1. Chapter IThe Return to the Mill
  2. Chapter IISt Ogg’s Passes Judgment
  3. Chapter IIIShowing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us
  4. Chapter IVMaggie and Lucy
  5. Chapter VThe Last Conflict
  6. Conclusion