The Mill on the Floss,based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life,Is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood,the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict,because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence.Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it,and the result,on more than one level,is tragedy.
【目录】
BOOK FIRST Boy and Girl
1 Outside Dorlcote Mill
2 Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares his Resolutio about Tom
3 Mr Riley Gives his Advice Concerning a School for Tom
4 Tom is Expected
5 Tom Comes Home
6 The Aunts and Uncles are Coming
7 Enter the Aunts and Uncles
8 Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
9 To Garum Firs
10 Maggie Behaves Worse than She Expected
11 Maggie Tries to Run Away From Her Shadow
12 Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home
13 Mr Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life
BOOK SECOND School-Time
1 Tom's 'First Half
2 The Christmas Holidays
3 The New Schoolfellow
4 'The Young Idea'
5 Maggie's Second Visit
BOOK THIRD The Downfall
1 What Had Happened at Home
2 Mrs Tulliver's Terapbim, or Household Gods
3 The Family Council
4 A Vanishing Gleam
5 Tom Applies his Knife to the Oyster
6 Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knifi
7 How a Hen Takes to Stratagem
8 Daylight on the Wreck
9 An Item Added to the Family Register
BOOK FOURTH The Valley of Humiliation
1 A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
2 The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns
3 A Voicefromthe Past
BOOK FIFTH Wheat and Tares
1 In the Red Deeps
2 Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb
3 The Wavering Balance
4 Another Love Scene
5 The Cloven Tree
6 The Hard-Won Triumph
7 A Day of Reckoning
BOOK SIXTH The Great Temptation
1 A Duet in Paradise
2 First Impressions
3 ConfidentialMoments
4 Brother and Sister
5 Showing that Tom had Opened the Oyster
6 Illustrating the Laws of Attraction
7 Philip Re-enters
8 Wakem in a New Light
9 Charity in Full-Dress
1O The Spell Seems Broken
11 In the Lane
12 A Family Party
13 Borne Along by the Tide
14 Waking
BOOK SEVENTH The Final Rescue
1 The Return to the Mill
2 St Ogg's Passes Judgement
3 Showing that Old Acquaintances are Capable of Surprising Us
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