《弗洛斯河上的磨房》是乔治·艾略特的经典作品，它描写了玛吉·塔利文从孩童成长为女人的故事。她极力试图使她对知识的渴求能和家庭的期望相一致，但玛吉遇到了一个充满激情的人，他爱她的智慧、才华和美貌，她真实的情感也因此而迸发出来……本书为其原版作品。

Ardent, impulsive, thirsty for knowledge, Maggie Tulliver is one of the great heroines of literature. George Eliot drew on her own anguished childhood when she depicted the stormy relationship between Maggie and Tom Tulliver. Maggie"s often tormented battle to do her duty and belong on the one hand, and to be herself, wild and natural on the other, propels her from one crisis to another. As the Tulliver fortunes decline and fall, the rift between Maggie and her family becomes almost irreconcilable. But Maggie"s biggest mistake of all is to fall in love with Stephen Guest who is engaged to another woman. Both a sharp and observant picture of English rural life and a profoundly convincing analysis of a woman"s psychology, The Mill on the Floss is a novel that tackles the complexities of morality versus desire.

Outside Dorlcote Mill

Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, declares his resolution about Tom

Mr Riley gives his advice concerning a school for Ton

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 TWO

School-Time

Tom"s "first half

The Christmas holidays

The new schoolfellow

The young idea"

Maggie"s secon.d visit

A love scene

The golden gates are passed

BOOK THREE

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 FOUR

The Valley of Humiliation

A variation of Protestantism unknown to Bossuet

The torn nest is pierced by the thorns

A voice from the past

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