The Mill on the Floss, based on George Eliot"s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.

The Mill on the Floss, based on George Eliot"s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.

As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence.

Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.

BOOK FIRST Boy and Girl

1  Outside Dorlcote Mill

2  Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares his Resolution about Tom

3  Mr Riley Gives his Advice Concerning a School for Tom

4  Tom is Expected

5  Tom Comes Home

6  The Aunts and Uncles are Coming

7 Enter the Aunts and Uncles

8 Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side

9  To Garum Firs

10  Maggie Behaves Worse than She Expected

11  Maggie Tries to Run Away From Her Shadow

12 Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home

13 Mr Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life

BOOK SECOND School- Time

1  Tom"s "First Half"

2  The Christmas Holidays

3 The New Schoolfellow

4  The Young Idea"

5  Maggie"s Second Visit

6  A Love Scene

7 The Golden Gates are Passed

BOOK THIRD The Downfall

1  What Had Happened at Home

2  Mrs Tulliver"s Teraphim, or Household Gods

3 The Family Council

4  A Vanishing Gleam

5  Tom Applies his Knife to the Oyster

6  Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present Pocket-Knife

7 How a Hen Takes to Strategem

8 Daylight on the Wreck

9  An Item Added to the Family Register

BOOK FOURTH The Valley of Humiliation

1  A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet58

2 The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns

3 A Voice from the Past

BOOK FIFTH Wheat and Tares

1  In the Red Deeps

2  Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob"s Thumb

3 The Wavering Balance

4 Another Love-Scene

5  The Cloven Tree

6 The Hard-Won Triumph

7 A Day of Reckoning

BOOK SIXTH The Great Temptation

1  A Duet in Paradise

2  First Impressions

3 Confidential Moments

4  Brother and Sitter

5  Showing that Tom had Opened the Oyster

6  Illustrating the Laws of Attraction

7 Philip Re-enters

8 Wakem in a New Light

9  Charity in Full-Dress

10  The Spell Seems Broken

11  In the Lane

11 A Family Party

12 Borne Along by the Tide

13  Waking

BOOK SEVENTH The Final Rescue

1  The Return to the Mill

2  St Ogg"s Passes Judgement

3 Showing that Old Acquaintances are Capable of Surprising Us

4  Maggie and Lucy

5  The Last Conflict

Conclusion