BOOK FIRST BOY AND GIRL 1
Ⅰ Outside Dorlcote Mill 1
Ⅱ Mr.Tulliver,of Dorlcote Mill,declares his resolu-tion about Tom 4
Ⅲ Mr.Riley gives his advice concerning a school for Tom 11
Ⅳ Tom is expected 27
Ⅴ Tom comes home 34
Ⅵ The aunts and uncles are coming 46
Ⅶ Enter the aunts and uncles 60
Ⅷ Mr.Tulliver shows his weaker side 89
Ⅸ To Garum Firs 101
Ⅹ Maggie behaves worse than she expected 118
Ⅺ Maggie tries to run away from her shadow 126
Ⅻ Mr.and Mrs.Glegg at home 140
ⅩⅢ Mr.Tulliver further entangles the skein of life 156
BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME 160
Ⅰ Tom's'first half' 160
Ⅱ The Christmas holidays 185
Ⅲ The new schoolfellow 194
Ⅳ ‘The young idea' 202
Ⅴ Maggie's second visit 215
Ⅵ A love scene 221
Ⅶ The golden gates are passed 227
BOOK THIRD THE DOWNFALL 236
Ⅰ What had happened at home 236
Ⅱ Mrs.Tulliver's teraphim,or household gods 244
Ⅲ The Family Council 250
Ⅳ A vanishing gleam 269
Ⅴ Tom applies his knife to the oyster 274
Ⅵ Tending to refute the popular prejudice again the present of a pocket-knife 288
Ⅶ How a hen takes to stratagem 297
Ⅷ Daylight on the wreck 311
Ⅸ An item added to the family register 322
Book FOURTH THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION 329
Ⅰ A variation of Protestantism unknown to Bossuet 329
Ⅱ The torn nest is pierced by the thorns 335
Ⅲ A voice from the past 342
BOOK FIFTH WHEAT AND TARES 360
Ⅰ In the red deeps 360
Ⅱ Aunt Glegg learns the breadth of Bob's thumb 375
Ⅲ The wavering balance 396
Ⅳ Another love scene 404
Ⅴ The cloven tree 412
Ⅵ The hard-won triumph 426
Ⅶ A day of reckoning 432
BOOK SIXTH THE GREAT TEMPTATION 441
Ⅰ A duet in Paradise 441
Ⅱ First impressions 451
Ⅲ Confidential moments 468
Ⅳ Brother and sister 473
Ⅴ Showing that Tom had opened the oyster 482
Ⅵ Illustrating the laws of attraction 488
Ⅶ Philip re-enters 500
Ⅷ Wakem in a new light 517
Ⅸ Charity in full dress 526
Ⅹ The spell seems broken 538
Ⅺ In the lane 546
Ⅻ A family party 554
ⅩⅢ Borne along by the tide 562
ⅩⅣ Waking 578
BOOK SEVENTH THE FINAL RESCUE 592
Ⅰ The return to the mill 592
Ⅱ St.Ogg's passes judgment 601
Ⅲ Showing that old acquaintances are capable of suprising us 612
Ⅳ Maggie and Lucy 620
Ⅴ The last conflict 628
CONCLUSION 642
Notes 644
Exercises 707