The Mill on the Floss

This 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.

Dinah Birch is Fellow and Tutor in English at Trinity College, Oxford, and Lecturer in English at Oxford University.

BOOK FIRST Boy and Girl
I Outside Dorlcote Mill
II Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares his Resolution about Tom
III Mr Riley Gives his Advice Concerning a School for Tom
IV Tom is Expected
V Tom Comes Home
VI The Aunts and Uncles are Coming
VII Enter the Aunts and Uncles
VIII Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
IX To Garum Firs
X Maggie Behaves Worse than She Expected
XI Maggie Tries to Run Away From Her Shadow
XII Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home
XIII Mr Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life
BOOK SECOND School- Time
I Tom's 'First Half"
II The Christmas Holidays
III The New Schoolfellow
IV The Young Idea"
V Maggie"s Second Visit
VI A Love Scene
VII The Golden Gates are Passed
BOOK THIRD The Downfall
BOOK FOURTH The Valley of Humiliation
BOOK FIFTH Wheat and Tares
BOOK SIXTH The Great Temptation
BOOK SEVENTH The Final Rescue
Conclusion