The mill on the Floss

Book First:

Boy and girl:

Outside Dorlcote Mill

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

Mr Rilley gives his advice concerning a school for Tom

Tom is expected

Tom comes home

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 Second:

School-time:

Tom's first-half

Christmas Holidays

New schoolfellow

Young idea

Maggie's second visit

Love scene

Golden gates are passed

Book Third:

Downfall:

What had happened at home

Mrs Tulliver's teraphim, or household gods

Family council

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

Item added to the family register

Book Fourth:

Valley of humiliation:

Variation of Protestantism unknown to Bossuet

Torn nest is pierced by the thorns

Voice from the past

Book Fifth:

Wheat and tares:

In the red deeps

Aunt Glegg learns the breadth of Bob's thumb

Wavering balance

Another love-scene

Cloven tree

Hard-won triumph

Day of reckoning

Book Sixth:

Great temptation:

Duet in Paris

First impressions

Confidential moments

Brother and sister

Showing that Tom had opened the oyster

Illustrating the laws of attraction

Philip re-enters

Wakem in a new light

Charity in full dress

Spell seems broken

In the lane

Family party

Borne along by the tide

Waking

Book Seventh:

Final rescue:

Return to the mill

St Ogg's passes judgment

Showing that old acquaintances are capable of surprising us

Maggie and Lucy

Last conflict

Conclusion.