NOVELS
SHORT STORIES
POETRY
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
— 1860 —
Table of Contents
Book I
Boy and Girl
Outside Dorlcote Mill
Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom
Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom
Tom Is Expected
Tom Comes Home
The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
Enter the Aunts and Uncles
Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
To Garum Firs
Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected
Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow
Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home
Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life
Book II
School-Time
Tom’s “First Half”
The Christmas Holidays
The New Schoolfellow
“The Young Idea”
Maggie’s Second Visit
A Love-Scene
The Golden Gates Are Passed
Book III
The Downfall
What Had Happened at Home
Mrs. Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods
The Family Council
A Vanishing Gleam
Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster
Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife
How a Hen Takes to Stratagem
Daylight on the Wreck
An Item Added to the Family Register
Book IV
The Valley of Humiliation
A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns
A Voice from the Past
Book V
Wheat and Tares
In the Red Deeps
Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb
The Wavering Balance
Another Love-Scene
The Cloven Tree
The Hard-Won Triumph
A Day of Reckoning
Book VI
The Great Temptation
A Duet in Paradise
First Impressions
Confidential Moments
Brother and Sister
Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster
Illustrating the Laws of Attraction
Philip Re-enters
Wakem in a New Light
Charity in Full-Dress
The Spell Seems Broken
In the Lane
A Family Party
Borne Along by the Tide
Waking
Book VII
The Final Rescue
The Return to the Mill
St. Ogg’s Passes Judgment
Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us
Maggie and Lucy
The Last Conflict