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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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The Mill on the Floss

Book I: Boy and Girl ................................................................................................. 4

I.1. Outside Dorlcote Mill............................................................................................... 4

I.2. Mr. Tulliver Declares His Resolution about Tom .................................................... 6

I.3. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom .................................. 10

I.4. Tom Is Expected..................................................................................................... 19

I.5. Tom Comes Home.................................................................................................. 23

I.6. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming........................................................................ 30

I.7. Enter the Aunts and Uncles .................................................................................... 38

I.8. Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side..................................................................... 54

I.9. To Garum Firs ........................................................................................................ 61

I.10. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected ........................................................ 71

I.11. Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow ...................................................... 76

I.12. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home................................................................................ 84

I.13. Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life ................................................. 93

Book II: School-Time ............................................................................................. 96

II.1. Tom's "First Half" ................................................................................................. 96

II.2. The Christmas Holidays ...................................................................................... 110

II.3. The New Schoolfellow........................................................................................ 115

II.4. "The Young Idea"................................................................................................ 119

II.5. Maggie's Second Visit......................................................................................... 127

II.6. A Love-Scene...................................................................................................... 131

II.7. The Golden Gates Are Passed............................................................................. 135

Book III: The Downfall ........................................................................................ 140

III.1. What Had Happened at Home ........................................................................... 140

III.2. Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods .................................................. 145

III.3. The Family Council ........................................................................................... 149

III.4. A Vanishing Gleam............................................................................................ 160

III.5. Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster ................................................................ 163

III.6. Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice ........................................................... 171

III.7. How a Hen Takes to Stratagem ......................................................................... 176

III.8. Daylight on the Wreck ....................................................................................... 184

III.9. An Item Added to the Family Register .............................................................. 190

Book IV: The Valley of Humiliation.............................................................. 194

IV.1. A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet........................................... 194

IV.2. The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns ............................................................ 198

IV.3. A Voice from the Past........................................................................................ 202

Book V: Wheat and Tares ................................................................................. 212

V.1. In the Red Deeps ................................................................................................. 212

V.2. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb................................................ 221

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