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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of George Eliot
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
Textual Variants
Gordon S. Haight’s emendations of the 1862 edition
Explanatory Notes
Abbreviations
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