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The Mill on the Floss
Chapters (59)
- Book I: Boy and Girl: I: Outside Dorlcote Mill 0:00
- II: Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution About Tom 5:48
- III: Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom 20:54
- IV: Tom Is Expected 54:20
- V: Tom Comes Home 1:07:37
- VI: The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming 1:32:44
- VII: Enter the Aunts and Uncles 2:01:36
- VIII: Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side 3:00:09
- IX: To Garum Firs 3:25:06
- X: Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected 4:00:15
- XI: Maggie Tries to Run Away from Her Shadow 4:15:34
- XII: Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home 4:44:55
- XIII: Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life 5:17:55
- Book II: School-Time: I: Tom’s “First Half” 5:25:43
- II: The Christmas Holidays 6:17:44
- III: The New Schoolfellow 6:37:03
- IV: “The Young Idea” 6:51:45
- V: Maggie’s Second Visit 7:19:08
- VI: A Love-Scene 7:30:55
- VII: The Golden Gates Are Passed 7:42:36
- Book III: The Downfall: I: What Had Happened at Home 7:59:02
- II: Mrs. Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods 8:15:08
- III: The Family Council 8:26:58
- IV: A Vanishing Gleam 9:06:25
- V: Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster 9:15:29
- VI: Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice Against the Present of a Pocketknife 9:45:09
- VII: How a Hen Takes to Stratagem 10:03:07
- VIII: Daylight on the Wreck 10:33:34
- IX: An Item Added to the Family Register 10:53:57
- Book IV: The Valley of Humiliation: I: A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet 11:08:26
- II: The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns 11:21:38
- III: A Voice from the Past 11:35:50
- Book V: Wheat and Tares: I: In the Red Deeps 12:14:48
- II: Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb 12:47:18
- III: The Wavering Balance 13:31:23
- IV: Another Love-Scene 13:48:55
- V: The Cloven Tree 14:03:30
- VI: The Hard-Won Triumph 14:33:20
- VII: A Day of Reckoning 14:44:43
- Book VI: The Great Temptation: I: A Duet in Paradise 15:00:40
- II: First Impressions 15:22:26
- III: Confidential Moments 15:55:33
- IV: Brother and Sister 16:06:31
- V: Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster 16:24:46
- VI: Illustrating the Laws of Attraction 16:35:13
- VII: Philip Re-Enters 17:01:41
- VIII: Wakem in a New Light 17:36:23
- IX: Charity in Full-Dress 17:53:39
- X: The Spell Seems Broken 18:18:05
- XI: In the Lane 18:33:28
- XII: A Family Party 18:49:41
- XIII: Borne Along by the Tide 19:06:27
- XIV: Waking 19:41:28
- Book VII: The Final Rescue: I: The Return to the Mill 20:10:31
- II: St. Ogg’s Passes Judgment 20:28:28
- III: Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us 20:51:24
- IV: Maggie and Lucy 21:08:51
- V: The Last Conflict 21:25:39
- VI: Conclusion 21:54:18
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Published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss was the second novel published by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans). Set in the late 1820s or early 1830s, it tells the story of two young people, Tom and Maggie Tulliver, from their childhood into early adulthood. Their father, Jeremy Tulliver, owns Dorlcote Mill on the river Floss, and the children grow to adolescence in relative comfort. However Mr. Tulliver is litigious and initiates an unwise legal suit against a local solicitor, Mr. Wakem. The suit is thrown out and the associated costs throw the Tulliver family into poverty, and they lose possession of the mill.
The main character of the novel is Maggie Tulliver, an intelligent and passionate child and young woman, whose mental, romantic, and moral struggles we follow closely. As in Eliot’s other novels, the author shows a realistic and sympathetic understanding of human behavior.
The Mill on the Floss is regarded as a classic of English literature, and has been made into both a film and a television series.