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Fiction · 1860

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Reading time
about 15 h
Length
207,049 words · 478 pages in print
Structure
58 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, machine-cleaned and carefully typeset, free to read online and available in print. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Book First — Boy and Girl
  2. Chapter I — Outside Dorlcote Mill
  3. Chapter II — Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom
  4. Chapter III — Mr Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom
  5. Chapter IV — Tom Is Expected
  6. Chapter V — Tom Comes Home
  7. Chapter VI — The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
  8. Chapter VII — Enter the Aunts and Uncles
  9. Chapter VIII — Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
  10. Chapter IX — To Garum Firs
  11. Chapter X — Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected
  12. Chapter XI — Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow
  13. Chapter XII — Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home
  14. Chapter XIII — Mr Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life
  15. Book Second — School-Time
  16. Chapter I — Tom’s “First Half”
  17. Chapter II — The Christmas Holidays
  18. Chapter III — The New Schoolfellow
  19. Chapter IV — “The Young Idea”
  20. Chapter V — Maggie’s Second Visit
  21. Chapter VI — A Love-Scene
  22. Chapter VII — The Golden Gates Are Passed
  23. Book Third — The Downfall
  24. Chapter I — What Had Happened at Home
  25. Chapter II — Mrs Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods
  26. Chapter III — The Family Council
  27. Chapter IV — A Vanishing Gleam
  28. Chapter V — Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster
  29. Chapter VI — Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife
  30. Chapter VII — How a Hen Takes to Stratagem
  31. Chapter VIII — Daylight on the Wreck
  32. Chapter IX — An Item Added to the Family Register
  33. Book Fourth — The Valley of Humiliation
  34. Chapter I — A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
  35. Chapter II — The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns
  36. Chapter III — A Voice from the Past
  37. Book Fifth — Wheat and Tares
  38. Chapter I — In the Red Deeps
  39. Chapter II — Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb
  40. Chapter III — The Wavering Balance
  41. Chapter IV — Another Love-Scene
  42. Chapter V — The Cloven Tree
  43. Chapter VI — The Hard-Won Triumph
  44. Chapter VII — A Day of Reckoning
  45. Book Sixth — The Great Temptation
  46. Chapter I — A Duet in Paradise
  47. Chapter II — First Impressions
  48. Chapter III — Confidential Moments
  49. Chapter IV — Brother and Sister
  50. Chapter V — Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster
  51. Chapter VI — Illustrating the Laws of Attraction
  52. Chapter VII — Philip Re-enters
  53. Chapter VIII — Wakem in a New Light
  54. Chapter IX — Charity in Full-Dress
  55. Chapter X — The Spell Seems Broken
  56. Chapter XI — In the Lane
  57. Chapter XII — A Family Party
  58. Chapter XIII — Borne Along by the Tide
  59. Chapter XIV — Waking
  60. Book Seventh — The Final Rescue
  61. Chapter I — The Return to the Mill
  62. Chapter II — St Ogg’s Passes Judgment
  63. Chapter III — Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us
  64. Chapter IV — Maggie and Lucy
  65. Chapter V — The Last Conflict
  66. Conclusion

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1819–1880 · Victorian

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