The story of impulsive, intelligent Maggie Tulliver and her bond with her rigid brother Tom as their family's decline and her forbidden loves drive toward tragedy on the river Floss.
Books mentioned in The Mill on the Floss (15)
Aesop's Fables by Aesop: “But I’ve got ‘Æsop’s Fables,’ and a book about Kangaroos and things, and the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress....’”
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “But I've got 'Æsop's Fables,' and a book about Kangaroos and things, and the 'Pilgrim's Progress.”
The History of the Devil by Daniel Defoe: “The 'History of the Devil,' by Daniel Defoe,--not quite the right book for a little girl," said Mr.”
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson: “Beauties of the Spectator," "Rasselas," "Economy of Human Life," "Gregory's Letters,"--she knew the sort of matter that was inside all these; the "Christian Year,"--that seemed to be a hymnbook, and she laid it down again; but _Thomas à Kempis?”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “The Pirate,'" she said, taking the book from Philip's hands.”
Corinne by Madame de Stael: “Take back your _Corinne_," said Maggie, drawing a book from under her shawl.”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving: “Let us hope it will give way before my mother’s custards and this charming Geoffrey Crayon.” Maggie took up the “Sketch Book,” which lay by her on the table.”
Holy Living and Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor: “There’s Jeremy Taylor’s ‘Holy Living and Dying’ among ’em. I read in it often of a Sunday”
The Saints' Everlasting Rest by Richard Baxter: “Glegg walked across the room to the small book-case, and took down Baxter's "Saints' Everlasting Rest," which she carried with her up-stairs.”
The Life of Cowper by Robert Southey: “Then followed the recommendation to choose Southey's "Life of Cowper," unless she were inclined to be philosophical, and startle the ladies of St.”
The Odyssey by Homer: “And in the Odyssey--that's a beautiful poem--there's a more wonderful giant than Goliath,--Polypheme, who had only one eye in the middle of his forehead; and Ulysses, a little fellow, but very wise and cunning, got a red-hot pine-tree and stuck it into this one eye, and made him roar like a thousand bulls."”
The Aeneid by Virgil: “a subtle aroma from his juvenile contact with the _De Senectute_ and the fourth book of the _Æneid_”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was speculative and irresolute, and we have a great tragedy in consequence.”
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: “but _Thomas à Kempis?_—the name had come across her in her reading, and she felt the satisfaction, which every one knows, of getting some ideas to attach to a name”
The Christian Year by John Keble: “Beauties of the Spectator," "Rasselas," "Economy of Human Life," "Gregory's Letters,"--she knew the sort of matter that was inside all these; the "Christian Year,"--that seemed to be a hymnbook, and she laid it down again; but _Thomas à Kempis?”
Books that mention The Mill on the Floss (4)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin: “It is coming, Emmie," she said presently; "do you remember in The Mill on the Floss, when Maggie Tulliver closed the golden gates of childhood behind her?”
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “We finished Their Wedding Journey by Howells and have begun The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.”