The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Scott, Foresman, 1920 - Brothers and sisters - 506 pages

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Eighteen hours ago I had over 300 pages left to read. Six of those hours I slept. The other twelve I spent reading The Mill on the Floss. Voraciously. George Eliot might be the best female writer ...

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The Mill on the Floss centres around Tom and Maggie Tulliver, whose parents own the eponymous Mill on the Floss. The first chapter is about their childhood, and how they grew up together, including an ...

Contents

• BOOK FIRST BOY AND GIRL CHAPTER I Outside Dorlcote Mill: 27
• Mr Tulliver of Dorlcote Mill declares his RESOLUTION ABOUT TOM: 29
• Mr Riley gives his advice concerning a school for Tom: 34
• Tom is expected: 47
• Tom comes home: 52
• The aunts and uncles are coming: 61
• VII Enter the aunts and uncles: 71
• Mr Tulliver shows his weaker side: 93
• To Garum Firs: 102
• Maggie behaves worse than she expected: 114
• Maggie tries to run away from her shadow: 120
• Mr and Mrs Glegg at home: 131
• Mr Tulliver further entangles the skein of life: 142
• BOOK SECOND SCHOOLTIME I Toms first half: 146
• The Christmas holidays: 165
• The new schoolfellow: 172
• The young idea: 177
• Maggies second visit: 187
• A lovescene: 192
• The colden gates are passed: 196
• BOOK THIRD THE DOWNFALL I What had happened at home: 203
• Mrs Tullivers teraphim or household gods: 209
• The family council: 213
• A vanishing gleam: 227
• Tom applies his knife to the oyster: 230
• Tending to refute the popular prejudice against THE PRESENT OF A POCKETKNIFE: 241
• HOW A HEN TAKES TO STRATAGEM: 247
• Daylight on the wreck: 258
• An item added to the family register: 266
• BOOK FOURTH THE VALLEY OP HUMILIATION CHAPTEB PAGE I A VARIATION OP PROTESTANTISM UNKNOWN TO BOSSUET: 272
• THE TORN NEST IS PIERCED BY THE THORNS: 276
• A VOICE FROM THE PAST: 281
• BOOK FIFTH WHEAT AND TARES I In the Red Deeps: 295
• Aunt Glegg learns the breadth op Bobs thumb: 306
• The wavering balance: 321
• Another lovescene: 327
• The cloven tree: 333
• H The hardwon triumph: 343
• TIL A DAY OF RECKONING: 348
• BOOK SIXTH THE GREAT TEMPTATION I A DUET IN PARADISE: 354
• First impressions: 362
• Confidential moments: 374
• Brother and sister: 378
• Showing that Tom had opened the oyster: 385
• Illustrating the laws of attraction: 389
• Philip reenters: 398
• Wakem in a new light: 411
• Charity in fulldress: 417
• The spell seems broken: 426
• In the lane: 431
• A FAMILY PARTY: 437
• Borne along by the tide: 443
• Waking: 455
• BOOK SEVENTH THE FINAL RESCUE I The return to the mill: 465
• St Oggs passes judgment: 471
• Showing that old acquaintances are capable of surprising us: 479
• Maggie and Lucy: 485
• The last conflict: 491
• Conclusion: 501
• Appendix: 502

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mill on the Floss; Half-title: The Lake English classics; general editor, L.T. Damon; Lake English classics
• Author: George Eliot
• Editor: Charles Henshaw Ward
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Scott, Foresman, 1920
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 25, 2007
• Length: 506 pages