The Mill on the FlossWith precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel gives a wonderful evocation of rural life and the complicated relationship between siblings. |
Contents
Tom comes home | |
The aunts and uncles are coming | |
Enter the aunts and uncles | |
Mr Tulliver shows his weaker side CHAPTER IX To Garum Firs | |
Maggie behaves worse than she expected | |
Aunt Glegg learns the breadth of Bobs thumb | |
A duet in paradise | |
First impressions | |
Confidential moments | |
Brother and sister | |
Showing that Tom had opened the oyster | |
Illustrating the laws of attraction | |
Philip reenters | |
Maggie tries to run away from her shadow | |
Mr and Mrs Glegg at home | |
Mr Tulliver further entangles the skein of life | |
SchoolTime | |
Toms first half | |
The Christmas holidays | |
The new schoolfellow | |
The young idea | |
Maggies second visit | |
What had happened at home | |
Mrs Tullivers teraphim or household gods | |
the present of a pocketknife | |
A variation of Protestantism unknown to Bossuet | |
The torn nest is pierced by the thorns | |
In the Red Deeps | |
Wakem in a new light | |
Charity in full dress | |
The spell seems broken | |
In the lane | |
A family party | |
Borne along by the tide | |
Waking | |
The Final Rescue | |
The return to the mill | |
Showing that old acquaintances are capable of surprising | |
Maggie and Lucy | |
The last conflict | |
Conclusion | |