About this Series Introduction A Note on the Text |
Oxford World's Classics the Mill on the Floss |
The Mill on the Floss / I: |
Introduction |
Note on the Text / George EliotII: |
Literary and Cultural Contexts |
Select Bibliography |
A Chronology of George Eliot |
"The Natural History of German Life" (1856) |
"Brother and Sister" (1869) |
Book First Boy and Girl |
"Looking Inward" and "Looking Backward" from Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879) / Daniel DefoeChapter II: |
Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom |
from Satan's Devices; or the Political History of the Devil (1726) / Oliver Goldsmith |
from An History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774) / G.H. Lewes |
from Studies in Animal Life (1862) |
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Critical Responses Unsigned review from Spectator / III: |
April 1860 Unsigned review from Saturday Review, April 14, 1860 / E.S. Dallas |
from The Times, May19, 1860 / Jennifer Uglow |
from George Eliot (1987) / Jules Law |
"Water rights and the 'crossing o' breeds': Chiastic exchange in The Mill on the Floss" (1992) / J.M.I. KlaverChapter X: |
Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected |
"'I will ferry thee across': The Meaning of Fluvialism in George Eliot's |
The Mill on the Floss" (1999) Chronology of The Mill on the Floss George Eliot: Chronology |
Works Cited |
For Further Reading |
Maggie Tries to Run Away from Her Shadow / Chapter XI: |
Book Second School-Time |
Tom's "First Half." / Chapter I: |
The Christmas Holidays |
The New Schoolfellow / Chapter III: |
Book Third the Downfall / Chapter IV: |
Mrs Tulliver's Teraphim,* or Household Gods |
The Family Council |
A Vanishing Gleam |
Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife / Chapter VI: |
How a Hen Takes to Stratagem / Chapter VII: |
Book Fourth the Valley of Humiliation |
A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet |
The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns |
A Voice from the Past |
Book Fifth Wheat and Tares |
In the Red Deeps |
Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb |
The Hard-Won Triumph |
A Day of Reckoning |
Book Sixth the Great Temptation |
A Duet in Paradise |
First Impressions |
Borne along by the Tide / Chapter XII: |
Book Seventh the Final Rescue |
The Return to the Mill |
St Ogg's Passes Judgment |
Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us |
About this Series Introduction A Note on the Text |
Oxford World's Classics the Mill on the Floss |
The Mill on the Floss / I: |