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The Mill on the Floss$
The Mill on the Floss (3 ed.)

George Eliot , Gordon S. Haight , and Juliette Atkinson

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Oxford University Press
ISBN:
9780198707530
DOI:
10.1093/owc/9780198707530.001.0001
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Contents

  • Front Matter
    • 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
      • 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
  • End Matter
    • Textual Variants
    • Explanatory Notes

Subject(s) in Oxford World's Classics

  • 19th Century Literature
  • British and Irish Literature
  • Fiction, Novelists, and Prose Writers
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  • Introduction
  • Note on the Text
  • Select Bibliography
  • A Chronology of George Eliot
  • The Mill on The Floss
  • 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
  • Explanatory Notes
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  • https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198707530.003.0062
  • Published in print: 10 September 2015
  • Published online: 16 December 2020

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  • Introduction
  • Note on the Text
  • Select Bibliography
  • A Chronology of George Eliot
  • The Mill on The Floss
  • 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
  • Explanatory Notes
  • Oxford University Press
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