• ISBN13: 9788124800164
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Peacock Books
• Publication Date: August 4, 2023
• Pages: 566
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 260 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Classics

The novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, and patterns of life and trade inherited from the earlier period.

Tom and Maggie, the principal characters, are the children of the honest hut ignorant and obstinate Mr. Tulliver, the miller of Dorlcote Mill on the Floss. Tom is prosaic youth, narrow of imagination and intellect, animated by conscious rectitude and a disposition to control others. Maggie, in contrast, is highly strung, intelligent, emotional, and, as a child, rebellious. Her aspirations go beyond the complacent, provincial world in which she lives, and her situation as a clever female in a man’s world indirectly reflects that of the author herself.

The conflict between Maggie and her brother, Tom a conflict between romance and reason, daring and caution, rebellion and acceptance helps creating a work that explores the full moral complexities of human choice and action.

The novel shows author’s mastery of narrative art, her broad range of understanding, and her profound sense of artistic purpose.

George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne, later Marian Evans) was born on November 22, 1819 in Warwickshire. She was educated at several schools, among them Miss Wallington’s Boarding School in Nuneaton, where she met and was greatly influenced by Rev. John Edmund Jones, an evangelical preacher who makes several appearances in her novels. In 1836 her mother died and she became her father’s housekeeper, educating herself in her spare time. In 1841 she moved to Coventry and there she was drawn to an intellectual circle that included Charles Bray and Charles Hennell, whose influences directed her towards free thinking in religious opinion.

BOOK ONE
• Boy and Girl
• 1. OUTSIDE DORLCOTE MILL .......................................................3
• 2. MR. TULLIVER, OF DORLCOTE MILL, DECLARES HIS
• RESOLUTION ABOUT TOM ....................................................5
• 3. MR. RILEY GIVES HIS ADVICE CONCERNING
• A SCHOOL FOR TOM ...........................................................11
• 4. TOM IS EXPECTED .................................................................25
• 5. TOM COMES HOME ...............................................................30
• 6. THE AUNTS AND UNCLES ARE COMING .................................41
• 7. ENTER THE AUNTS AND UNCLES ...........................................53
• 8. MR. TULLIVER SHOWS HIS WEAKER SIDE ...............................77
• 9. TO GARUM FIRS.....................................................................87
• 10. MAGGIE BEHAVES WORSE THAN SHE EXPECTED ..................102
• 11. MAGGIE TRIES TO RUN AWAY FROM HER SHADOW .............108
• 12. MR. AND MRS. GLEGG AT HOME .........................................120
• 13. MR. TULLIVER FURTHER ENTANGLES THE SKEIN OF LIFE .....133
BOOK TWO
• School-Time
• 1. TOM’S “FIRST HALF” ...........................................................139
• 2. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS .................................................160
• 3. THE NEW SCHOOLFELLOW ..................................................168
• 4. “THE YOUNG IDEA” ............................................................174
• 5. MAGGIE’S SECOND VISIT .....................................................185
• 6. A LOVE-SCENE ....................................................................190
• 7. THE GOLDEN GATES ARE PASSED .........................................195
BOOK THREE
• The Downfall
• 1. WHAT HAD HAPPENED AT HOME ........................................205
• 2. MRS. TULLIVER’S TERAPHIM, OR HOUSEHOLD GODS ..........211
• 3. THE FAMILY COUNCIL .........................................................216
• 4. A VANISHING GLEAM ..........................................................232
• 5. TOM APPLIES HIS KNIFE TO THE OYSTER .............................236
• 6. TENDING TO REFUTE THE POPULAR PREJUDICE
• AGAINST THE PRESENT OF A POCKET-KNIFE ....................248
• 7. HOW A HEN TAKES TO STRATAGEM.....................................256
• 8. DAYLIGHT ON THE WRECK..................................................268
• 9. AN ITEM ADDED TO THE FAMILY REGISTER .........................277
BOOK FOUR
• The Valley of Humiliation
• 1. A VARIATION OF PROTESTANTISM UNKNOWN
• TO BOSSUET .....................................................................285
• 2. THE TORN NEST IS PIERCED BY THE THORNS .......................290
• 3. A VOICE FROM THE PAST .....................................................295
BOOK FIVE
• Wheat and Tares
• 1. IN THE RED DEEPS ...............................................................313
• 2. AUNT GLEGG LEARNS THE BREADTH OF BOB’S THUMB .......325
• 3. THE WAVERING BALANCE ...................................................343
• 4. ANOTHER LOVE-SCENE .......................................................350
• 5. THE CLOVEN TREE ..............................................................356
• 6. THE HARD-WON TRIUMPH .................................................368
• 7. A DAY OF RECKONING .........................................................373
BOOK SIX
• The Great Temptation
• 1. A DUET IN PARADISE ...........................................................383
• 2. FIRST IMPRESSIONS .............................................................392
• 3. CONFIDENTIAL MOMENTS ..................................................406
• 4. BROTHER AND SISTER .........................................................410
• 5. SHOWING THAT TOM HAD OPENED THE OYSTER ................418
• 6. ILLUSTRATING THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION .........................422
• 7. PHILIP REENTERS ................................................................433
• 8. WAKEM IN A NEW LIGHT .....................................................447
• 9. CHARITY IN FULL-DRESS .....................................................455
• 10. THE SPELL SEEMS BROKEN ...................................................465
• 11. IN THE LANE .......................................................................471
• 12. A FAMILY PARTY ..................................................................478
• 13. BORNE ALONG BY THE TIDE ................................................485
• 14. WAKING ..............................................................................499
• BOOK SEVEN
• The Final Rescue
• 1. THE RETURN TO THE MILL ..................................................513
• 2. ST. OGG’S PASSES JUDGMENT ..............................................520
• 3. SHOWING THAT OLD ACQUAINTANCES ARE CAPABLE OF
• SURPRISING US ................................................................529
• 4. MAGGIE AND LUCY .............................................................536
• 5. THE LAST CONFLICT ............................................................543
• CONCLUSION ......................................................................555