The Mill on the Floss: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mill on the Floss, credited to George Eliot, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes. Maggie Tulliver holds the central role in the book, as both her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem, a hunchbacked, but sensitive and intellectual, friend, and with Stephen Guest, a vivacious young socialite in St. Oggs and fiance of Maggie’s cousin Lucy Deane, constitute the most significant narrative threads: (Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mill on the Floss
• Author credits: George Eliot
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Listed recording duration: 21:15:23

Catalogue topics

• novel
• fiction
• relationships

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 01 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 01 - Outside Dorlcote Mill — 7:07
2. 02 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 02 - Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom — 12:41
3. 03 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 03 - Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom — 27:55
4. 04 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 04 - Tom Is Expected — 11:40
5. 05 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 05 - Tom Comes Home — 21:50
6. 06 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 06 - The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming — 24:20
7. 07 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 07 - Enter the Aunts and Uncles — 1:06:31
8. 08 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 08 - Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side — 26:28
9. 09 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 09 - To Garum Firs — 41:38
10. 10 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 10 - Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected — 14:55
11. 11 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 11 - Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow — 27:57
12. 12 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 12 - Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home — 33:08
13. 13 - Book 01 - Boy and Girl - Chapter 13 - Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life — 7:37
14. 14 - Book 02 - School Time - Chapter 01 - Tom's First Half — 1:03:26
15. 15 - Book 02 – School-Time - Chapter 02 - The Christmas Holidays — 19:41
16. 16 - Book 02 – School-Time - Chapter 03 - The New Schoolfellow — 14:41
17. 17 - Book 02 – School-Time - Chapter 04 - The Young Idea — 26:03
18. 18 - Book 02 – School-Time - Chapter 05 - Maggie's Second Visit — 11:03
19. 19 - Book 02 – School-Time - Chapter 06 - A Love-Scene — 10:44
20. 20 - Book 02 – School-Time - Chapter 07 - The Golden Gates Are Passed — 15:08
21. 21 - Book 03 - The Downfall - Chapter 01 - What Had Happened at Home — 15:05
22. 22 - Book 03 - The Downfall - Chapter 02 - Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods — 10:40
23. 23 - Book 03 - The Downfall - Chapter 03 - The Family Council — 43:17
24. 24 - Book 03 - The Downfall - Chapter 04 - A Vanishing Gleam — 9:13

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