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The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

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Table of Contents
BOOK 1: Boy and Girl Outside Dorlcote Mill Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom Tom Is Expected Tom Comes Home The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming Enter the Aunts and Uncles Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side To Garum Firs Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life BOOK 2: School-Time Tom's "First Half" The Christmas Holidays The New Schoolfellow "The Young Idea" Maggie's Second Visit A Love-Scene The Golden Gates Are Passed BOOK 3: The Downfall What Had Happened at Home Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods The Family Council A Vanishing Gleam Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife How a Hen Takes to Stratagem Daylight on the Wreck An Item Added to the Family Register BOOK 4: The Valley of Humiliation A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns A Voice from the Past BOOK 5: Wheat and Tares In the Red Deeps Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb The Wavering Balance Another Love-Scene The Cloven Tree The Hard-Won Triumph A Day of Reckoning BOOK 6: The Great Temptation A Duet in Paradise First Impressions Confidential Moments Brother and Sister Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster Illustrating the Laws of Attraction Philip Re-enters Wakem in a New Light Charity in Full-Dress The Spell Seems Broken In the Lane A Family Party Borne Along by the Tide Waking BOOK 7:The Final Rescue The Return to the Mill St. Ogg's Passes Judgment Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us Maggie and Lucy The Last Conflict Conclusion

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