内容简介
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 intowomanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards withher 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 Resolution about Tom
3 Mr Riley Gives his Advice Concerning a School for Tom
4 Tom isExected
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'FirstHalf
2 The Christmas Holidays
3 The New Schoolfellow
4 'The Young Idea'
5 Maggie's Second Visit
6 A Love Scene
7 The Golden Gates are Passed
BOOK THIRD The Downfall
1 What Had Happened at Home
2 Mrs Tulliver's Teraphim, 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-Knife
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 Voice from the 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 FOURTH The Great Temptation
BOOK FOURTH The Final Rescue
