The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
“In their death they were not divided.”
Contents
| BOOK FIRST. BOY AND GIRL. |
| Chapter I. Outside Dorlcote Mill |
| Chapter II. Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom |
| Chapter III. Mr Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom |
| Chapter IV. Tom Is Expected |
| Chapter V. Tom Comes Home |
| Chapter VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming |
| Chapter VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles |
| Chapter VIII. Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side |
| Chapter IX. To Garum Firs |
| Chapter X. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected |
| Chapter XI. Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow |
| Chapter XII. Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home |
| Chapter XIII. Mr Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life |
| BOOK SECOND. SCHOOL-TIME. |
| Chapter I. Tom’s “First Half” |
| Chapter II. The Christmas Holidays |
| Chapter III. The New Schoolfellow |
| Chapter IV. “The Young Idea” |
| Chapter V. Maggie’s Second Visit |
| Chapter VI. A Love-Scene |
| Chapter VII. The Golden Gates Are Passed |
| BOOK THIRD. THE DOWNFALL. |
| Chapter I. What Had Happened at Home |
| Chapter II. Mrs Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods |
| Chapter III. The Family Council |
| Chapter IV. A Vanishing Gleam |
| Chapter V. Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster |
| Chapter VI. Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife |
| Chapter VII. How a Hen Takes to Stratagem |
| Chapter VIII. Daylight on the Wreck |
| Chapter IX. An Item Added to the Family Register |
| BOOK FOURTH. THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION. |
| Chapter I. A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet |
| Chapter II. The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns |
| Chapter III. A Voice from the Past |
| BOOK FIFTH. WHEAT AND TARES. |
| Chapter I. In the Red Deeps |
| Chapter II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb |
| Chapter III. The Wavering Balance |
| Chapter IV. Another Love-Scene |
| Chapter V. The Cloven Tree |
| Chapter VI. The Hard-Won Triumph |
| Chapter VII. A Day of Reckoning |
| BOOK SIXTH. THE GREAT TEMPTATION. |
| Chapter I. A Duet in Paradise |
| Chapter II. First Impressions |
| Chapter III. Confidential Moments |
| Chapter IV. Brother and Sister |
| Chapter V. Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster |
| Chapter VI. Illustrating the Laws of Attraction |
| Chapter VII. Philip Re-enters |
| Chapter VIII. Wakem in a New Light |
| Chapter IX. Charity in Full-Dress |
| Chapter X. The Spell Seems Broken |
| Chapter XI. In the Lane |
| Chapter XII. A Family Party |
| Chapter XIII. Borne Along by the Tide |
| Chapter XIV. Waking |
| BOOK SEVENTH. THE FINAL RESCUE. |
| Chapter I. The Return to the Mill |
| Chapter II. St Ogg’s Passes Judgment |
| Chapter III. Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us |
| Chapter IV. Maggie and Lucy |
| Chapter V. The Last Conflict |
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