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The Mill on the Floss

Table Of 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
  • Conclusion