The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
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Why was this feeling of regret so familiar to her? Why must she always wish she had done something different? Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom grow up in the Mill on the River Floss. Although Maggie adores Tom, she often finds him cruel and cold. All she wants is for life to be full and warm. The Tulliver family’s traditional way of living is threatened by changes beyond their control. Will the educated world of lawyers and lawsuits destroy what generations have enjoyed? As Maggie grows into adulthood, how can she control her passionate nature? With a destiny like an unmapped river – full, ...
Chapters (67)
- The Mill on the Floss
- 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
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