The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

Contents

Book 1: Boy and Girl

1. Outside Dorlcote Mill
2. Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom
3. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom
4. Tom Is Expected
5. Tom Comes Home
6. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
7. Enter the Aunts and Uncles
8. Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
9. To Garum Firs
10. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected
11. Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow
12. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home
13. Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life

Book 2: School-Time

1. Tom's "First Half"
2. The Christmas Holidays
3. The New Schoolfellow
4. "The Young Idea"
5. Maggie's Second Visit
6. A Love-Scene
7. The Golden Gates Are Passed

Book 3: The Downfall

1. What Had Happened at Home
2. Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods
3. The Family Council
4. A Vanishing Gleam
5. Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster
6. Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife
7. How a Hen Takes to Stratagem
8. Daylight on the Wreck
9. An Item Added to the Family Register

Book 4: The Valley of Humiliation

1. A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
2. The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns
3. A Voice from the Past

Book 5: Wheat and Tares

1. In the Red Deeps
2. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb
3. The Wavering Balance
4. Another Love-Scene
5. The Cloven Tree
6. The Hard-Won Triumph
7. A Day of Reckoning

Book 6: The Great Temptation

1. A Duet in Paradise
2. First Impressions
3. Confidential Moments
4. Brother and Sister
5. Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster
6. Illustrating the Laws of Attraction
7. Philip Re-enters
8. Wakem in a New Light
9. Charity in Full-Dress
10. The Spell Seems Broken
11. In the Lane
12. A Family Party
13. Borne Along by the Tide
14. Waking

Book 7: The Final Rescue

1. The Return to the Mill
2. St. Ogg's Passes Judgment
3. Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us
4. Maggie and Lucy
5. The Last Conflict
6. Conclusion