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The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)

The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)

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Number of Chapters: 63

Length: 25 hours and 39 minutes

Language: English

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds so dear. In large measure, their lives are dominated by their father, a successful miller brought down by his inability to resist settling arguments in a court of law. Character differences between Tom and Maggie - he dour and rigid of thought, she lively and impulsive - seem to matter little in childhood, but eventually strain their relationship beyond breaking point. It is Maggie, however, who is the dominant character of the book, arguably one of the great characters of 19th century literature. Each of her relationships is vital to the narrative: with her parents, with Tom above all, but on a romantic level with Philip Wakem, the sensitive hunchbacked son of her father’s (and Tom’s) bitterest enemy, and with charming and urbane Stephen Guest, fiance of Maggie’s cousin Lucy Deane. Maggie’s life is changed utterly by an impulsive elopement which she turns back from, but too late to stop the inevitable abuse and contempt. This is a semi-autobiographical reflection of the vilification which George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had to endure while openly living with a married man, a time when her brother was willing to communicate with her only through lawyers. Eliot writes of character and relationships with an insight and sharp detail that few authors have ever equaled. It’s a long book, but you will appreciate it for its depth. - Summary by Tom Denholm

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BOOK FIRST. BOY AND GIRL. Chapter I. Outside Dorlcote Mill (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. Mr Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IV. Tom Is Expected (Tom Denholm)
Chapter V. Tom Comes Home (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VII. Part i Enter the Aunts and Uncles (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VII. Part ii Enter the Aunts and Uncles, cont'd (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VIII. Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IX. To Garum Firs (Tom Denholm)
Chapter X. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected (Tom Denholm)
Chapter XI. Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow (Tom Denholm)
Chapter XII. Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home (Tom Denholm)
Chapter XIII. Mr Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life (Tom Denholm)
BOOK SECOND. SCHOOL-TIME. Chapter I. Part I Tom’s ''First Half'' (Tom Denholm)
Chapter I. Part II Tom’s ''First Half'', cont'd (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. The Christmas Holidays (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. The New Schoolfellow (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IV. ''The Young Idea'' (Tom Denholm)
Chapter V. Maggie's Second Visit (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VI. A Love-Scene (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VII. The Golden Gates Are Passed (Tom Denholm)
BOOK THIRD. THE DOWNFALL. Chapter I. What Had Happened at Home (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. Mrs Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. Part i The Family Council (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. Part ii The Family Council, cont'd (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IV. A Vanishing Gleam (Tom Denholm)
Chapter V. Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VI. Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VII. How a Hen Takes to Strategem (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VIII. Daylight on the Wreck (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IX. An Item Added to the Family Register (Tom Denholm)
BOOK FOURTH. THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION. Chapter I. A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. Part i A Voice from the Past (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. Part ii A Voice from the Past, cont'd (Tom Denholm)
BOOK FIFTH. WHEAT AND TARES. Chapter I. In the Red Deeps (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. Part i Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. Part ii Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb, cont'd (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. The Wavering Balance (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IV. Another Love-Scene (Tom Denholm)
Chapter V. The Cloven Tree (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VI. The Hard-Won Triumph (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VII. A Day of Reckoning (Tom Denholm)
BOOK SIXTH. THE GREAT TEMPTATION. Chapter I. A Duet in Paradise (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. First Impressions (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. Confidential Moments (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IV. Brother and Sister (Tom Denholm)
Chapter V. Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VI. Illustrating the Laws of Attraction (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VII. Philip Re-enters (Tom Denholm)
Chapter VIII. Wakem in a New Light (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IX. Charity in Full-Dress (Tom Denholm)
Chapter X. The Spell Seems Broken (Tom Denholm)
Chapter XI. In the Lane (Tom Denholm)
Chapter XII. A Family Party (Tom Denholm)
Chapter XIII. Borne Along by the Tide (Tom Denholm)
Chapter XIV. Waking (Tom Denholm)
BOOK SEVENTH. THE FINAL RESCUE. Chapter I. The Return to the Mill (Tom Denholm)
Chapter II. St Ogg's Passes Judgment (Tom Denholm)
Chapter III. Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us (Tom Denholm)
Chapter IV. Maggie and Lucy (Tom Denholm)
Chapter V. The Last Conflict, and Conclusion (Tom Denholm)
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