Moby Dick
Chapter 123: The Musket
by Herman Melville
Starbuck contemplates taking matters into his own hands.
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The Marble Faun
Chapter III: “Subterranean Reminiscences”
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The author describes Miriam model to the reader. Miriam disappears from the group.
Black Beauty
Part 1, Chapter 3: My Breaking In
by Anna Sewell
The narrator is taught to wear a saddle.
David Copperfield
Chapter 20: Steerforth's Home
by Charles Dickens
David spends a few days in London before returning to Yarmouth.
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
by Henry David Thoreau
More visitors arrive at Walden Pond during the winter.
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court
Chapter 40: “Three Years Later”
by Mark Twain
Three years later, the country is happy and prosperous. The Yankee plans to overthrow the Catholic Church and start universal suffrage after Arthur dies. The Yankee marries Sandy and they have a daughter who falls ill. They nurse her back to health. The Yankee introduces baseball to Camelot.
The Time Machine
Chapter 10
by H.G. Wells
The Time Traveller finds the machine, barely escaping with his life.
The Emerald City of Oz
Chapter 12: “How They Matched the Fuddles”
by L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and her friends continue on their way and meet a mittenless kangaroo. She tells the gang about the Fuddles in the nearby town of Fuddlecumjig. The people of that town literally fall to pieces when strangers come to visit. Dorothy and her friends matched some of the townspeople, sat down to dinner, and continued on their way.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Blue Light
by Grimm Brothers
With the help of a dwarf, a soldier achieves great fortunes.
A Florida Sketch-Book
Chapter 7: “On the St. Augustine Road”
by Bradford Torrey
The narrator travels down the St. Augustine Road and describes the scenery and meeting other travelers along the road
The Crimson Fairy Book
“The Hairy Man”
by Andrew Lang
A story of a prince that escapes from his father and proves himself in battle with the help of three magical apples.
Civil Rights and Conflict in the United States: Selected Speeches
Speech on Lynch Law in America, Given by Ida B. Wells in Chicago, Illinois, January, 1900
by Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells' speech concerning the prevalence of lynching throughout the United States, as well as the racial bias of the judicial system.
The Souls of Black Folk
Chapter 2: Of the Dawn of Freedom
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Du Bois discusses the period of history from 1861 to 1872, as it relates to the American Negro.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
Chapter 5: “Matilda Jane”
by Lewis Carroll
Bruno tells a story to the farmer’s wife while the narrator and Sylvie meet up with the farmer’s children in the orchard.
The Colored Cadet at West Point
Chapter 6: Studies, Etc.
by Henry O. Flipper
A description of the classes, both academic and military, that cadets were required to attend while at West Point.
The Wind in the Willows
Dulce Domum
by Kenneth Grahame
Mole, accompanied by his new friends, returns to his home. Mole sends for groceries in order to feed his guests.
Historic American Documents
Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, Richmond, Virginia March 23, 1775
by Patrick Henry
A transcription of Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech made before the Virginia House of Burgesses.
My Bondage and My Freedom
Letter to His Old Master. "To My Old Master, Thomas Auld."
by Frederick Douglass
Letter to His Old Master. "To My Old Master, Thomas Auld."
The Story of Siegfried
Adventure 12: “The War With the North-Kings”
by James Baldwin
How Siegfried turned war into feasting.
The Iliad
Book 11: The Third Battle, and the Acts of Agamemnon
by Homer
Zeus fills the Achaeans with fear before sending an important message to Hector. Odysseus Diomedes inspire the Achaeans fight courageously.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
"Thoughts on the Works of Providence."
by Phillis Wheatley
A R I S E, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise
The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms or Lost in the Wilds of Florida
Chapter 6: By Wireless
by Laura Lee Hope
Contact is made with a second ship as the situation continues to decline.
Winesburg, Ohio
Sophistication, concerning Helen White
by Sherwood Anderson
George Willard experiences "a moment of sophistication" and sets out to find Helen White.
Beowulf
Chapter 39
by Francis Barton Gummere
The Iliad
Book 22: The Death of Hector
by Homer
Achilles and Hector finally meet on the field of battle.