The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Book Eighth, Chapter 2
by Victor Hugo
Esmeralda is led to the torture chamber where her spirit is quickly broken.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter 62: Ghosts
by Alexandre Dumas, pére
The guests for the Count of Monte Cristo's Auteuil party begin to arrive.
The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms or Lost in the Wilds of Florida
Chapter 8: St. Augustine
by Laura Lee Hope
The DeVere sisters, Russ, and Paul take a look around.
Half-Past Seven Stories
Story 9: "Dr. Philemon Pipp, the Patent Medicine Man"
by Robert Gordon Anderson
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. The three children went to a market and watched a peddler/street performer sell his wares with magic tricks to awe the customers. The Toyman tells them to beware of such scams.
David Copperfield
Chapter 48: Domestic
by Charles Dickens
David's hopes for domestic bliss are not fulfilled.
The Age of Innocence
Part 1, Chapter 11
by Edith Wharton
Newland decides he must protect Ellen from herself. Newland meets with Letterblair to discuss the Countess' affairs.
The Journey to the Center of the Earth
Chapter II. A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE
by Jules Verne
The Marble Faun
Author’s Preface
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The preface to the novel.
Stories from Around the World
“Hans, Who Made the Princess Laugh”
by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
How Hans and a special goose got the princess to laugh.
Vanity Fair
Chapter 3: Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Becky Sharp is introduced to Joseph Sedley.
The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat
Chapter 5
by Ross Kay
Grant realizes he has the wrong bag as he gets onto the motor boat. He discovers the bag is heavier than his and tries to think of a plan to get his back or at least open the mystery one. Fred and John seem to know something more about the luggage.
Flatland
Part 1, Section 9: Of the Universal Colour Bill
by Edwin A. Abbott
The author discusses the Art of Sight Recognition and the Universal Color Bill.
My Bondage and My Freedom
Chapter 3: Parentage
by Frederick Douglass
Mr. Douglass remembers his mother.
The Castle of Otranto
Preface to the First Edition
by Horace Walpole
The preface to the book.
Vanity Fair
Chapter 60: Returns to the Genteel World
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Little George returns, as does good fortune, to the Sedley house.
Winesburg, Ohio
Godliness, a Tale in Four Parts: Part 1, concerning Jesse Bentley
by Sherwood Anderson
The Civil War brings many changes to Jesse Bentley's life,
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Visitors
by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau describes the many visitors who have entered his home.
A Little Princess
Chapter 8: In the Attic
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara begins her new life as a servant.
The Emerald City of Oz
Chapter 2: “How Uncle Henry Got into Trouble”
by L. Frank Baum
Because of Uncle Henry’s failing health and poor weather, he and Aunt Em are broke and are going to lose the farm. They tell Dorothy that she will be better off living as a princess in Oz rather than poor with them. Dorothy goes to her room and with the help of Ozma and the Magic Belt, she leaves for Oz.
The Journey to the Center of the Earth
CHAPTER XVII. VERTICAL DESCENT
by Jules Verne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Book Eighth, Chapter 6
by Victor Hugo
Having been with his garrison for a period, the recovered Captain Phoebus arrives in Notre Dame as the crowd gathers for punishment of Esmeralda. Upon seeing Captain Phoebus, the condemned Esmeralda collapses just before she is rescued by Quasimoto.
The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms or Lost in the Wilds of Florida
Chapter 10: The Motor Races
by Laura Lee Hope
Jake's story is told to Alice. Alice and Ruth take part in a motor race.
Selected Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Cockermouth and Keswick—A Fragment
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The author describes his experiences and observations in the Cockermouth and Keswick areas of Great Britain.
My Bondage and My Freedom
Chapter 16: Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vice
by Frederick Douglass
Mr. Douglass makes his way back to St. Michael's, hoping that Master Thomas will intervene on his behalf.
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Chapter 4
by Mary Shelley
Victor studies with enthusiasm and ignores his social life. He learns all his teachers have to teach him and begins his fascinating and absorbing work on an animate being because of his fixation on discovering the secret of life.