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

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