
The Mill on the Floss
Life beside a river mill frames a family story of education, loyalty and desire.
- Length
- 59 chapters
- Reading time
- About 14 hr 24 min
- Words
- 205,569
Contents
- Book 1: Boy and Girl
- Chapter 1: Outside Dorlcote Mill4 min
- Chapter 2: Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution About Tom10 min
- Chapter 3: Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom22 min
- Chapter 4: Tom Is Expected9 min
- Chapter 5: Tom Comes Home16 min
- Chapter 6: The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming19 min
- Chapter 7: Enter the Aunts and Uncles39 min
- Chapter 8: Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side17 min
- Chapter 9: To Garum Firs23 min
- Chapter 10: Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected10 min
- Chapter 11: Maggie Tries to Run Away from Her Shadow20 min
- Chapter 12: Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home22 min
- Chapter 13: Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life5 min
- Book 2: School-Time
- Chapter 1: Tom’s “First Half”34 min
- Chapter 2: The Christmas Holidays13 min
- Chapter 3: The New Schoolfellow10 min
- Chapter 4: “The Young Idea”18 min
- Chapter 5: Maggie’s Second Visit8 min
- Chapter 6: A Love-Scene8 min
- Chapter 7: The Golden Gates Are Passed11 min
- Book 3: The Downfall
- Chapter 1: What Had Happened at Home11 min
- Chapter 2: Mrs. Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods8 min
- Chapter 3: The Family Council26 min
- Chapter 4: A Vanishing Gleam6 min
- Chapter 5: Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster20 min
- Chapter 6: Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice Against the Present of a Pocketknife12 min
- Chapter 7: How a Hen Takes to Stratagem20 min
- Chapter 8: Daylight on the Wreck13 min
- Chapter 9: An Item Added to the Family Register10 min
- Book 4: The Valley of Humiliation
- Chapter 1: A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet8 min
- Chapter 2: The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns9 min
- Chapter 3: A Voice from the Past25 min
- Book 5: Wheat and Tares
- Chapter 1: In the Red Deeps21 min
- Chapter 2: Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb29 min
- Chapter 3: The Wavering Balance11 min
- Chapter 4: Another Love-Scene10 min
- Chapter 5: The Cloven Tree19 min
- Chapter 6: The Hard-Won Triumph7 min
- Chapter 7: A Day of Reckoning10 min
- Book 6: The Great Temptation
- Chapter 1: A Duet in Paradise14 min
- Chapter 2: First Impressions22 min
- Chapter 3: Confidential Moments7 min
- Chapter 4: Brother and Sister12 min
- Chapter 5: Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster7 min
- Chapter 6: Illustrating the Laws of Attraction17 min
- Chapter 7: Philip Re-Enters22 min
- Chapter 8: Wakem in a New Light12 min
- Chapter 9: Charity in Full-Dress16 min
- Chapter 10: The Spell Seems Broken10 min
- Chapter 11: In the Lane10 min
- Chapter 12: A Family Party11 min
- Chapter 13: Borne Along by the Tide23 min
- Chapter 14: Waking18 min
- Book 7: The Final Rescue
- Chapter 1: The Return to the Mill12 min
- Chapter 2: St. Ogg’s Passes Judgment15 min
- Chapter 3: Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us11 min
- Chapter 4: Maggie and Lucy11 min
- Chapter 5: The Last Conflict19 min
- Chapter 6: Conclusion1 min