The Mill on the Floss

CONTENTS BOOK ONE 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 TWO 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 THREE The Downfall 1. What 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 FOUR The Valley of Humiliation 1. The variation of Protestantism unknown to Bossuet 2. The torn nest is pierced by the thorns 3. A voice from the past BOOK FIVE 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 SIX 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 SEVEN The Final Rescue 1. The return to the mill 2. St Ogg's passes judgement 3. Showing that old acquaintances are capable of surprising us 4. Maggie and Lucy 5. The last conflict Conclusion