The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat
Chapter 14
by Ross Kay
The boys head for the Thousand Islands and discuss what to do about their rude passenger. They see the Varmint II and speak of racing the boats again.
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Vanity Fair
Chapter 58: Our Friend the Major
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Jos and Dobbin get a good nights sleep. Dobbin prepares for a reunion of sorts.
The Four Million
"The Gift of The Magi"
by O. Henry
A couple makes personal sacrifices to give each other gifts for Christmas.
Wakulla, A Story of Adventure in Florida
"Edna May March"
by Kirk Munroe
Mark and Ruth return home. Mr. March discovers that Edna May looks like his dead wife. They realize that Edna is Frank’s lost sister.
Moby Dick
Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters
by Herman Melville
Ishmael introduces the reader to some whaling terminology.
Wuthering Heights
Chapter 32
by Emily Brontë
Lockwood leaves and comes back six months later to find Nelly living at Wuthering Heights, as Cathy's companion because Zillah left. After Hareton accidentally shoots himself, Cathy gives Nelly a book to give to him; if he accepts it Cathy vows to teach him to read and never tease him again.
Oliver Twist
Chapter 26: In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; And many Things, Inseparable From This History, Are Done and Performed.
by Charles Dickens
Fagin and Monks discuss Oliver's future.
Jack Tier; or, The Florida Reef
Part I, Chapter VII
by James Fenimore Cooper
Jack, Mulford, and Rose make plans. Rose is frustrated by her aunt's ignorance. The boat faces danger.
The Souls of Black Folk
Chapter 5: Of the Wings of Atalanta
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Du Bois discusses the significance of the city of Atlanta.
The Grey Fairy Book
A Fairy’s Blunder
by Andrew Lang
A thoughtless fairy enchants a fountain without considering the effects of the enchantment. Beyond destroying the town, the mistake takes effect against the young wards of another fairy. The fairies try to discover a way to undo the mistake and reunite the young lovers.
The Yellow Fairy Book
The Seven-Headed Serpent
by Andrew Lang
How a youth overcomes the seven-headed serpent who has demanded from his nation twenty-four young people each year.
American Short Fiction
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Following the birth of her child, the narrator is cared for by her physician husband at a country estate.
Vanity Fair
Chapter 34: James Crawley’s Pipe Is Put Out
by William Makepeace Thackeray
James falls out of favor with Miss Crawley. Angered by correspondence from Rebecca, Miss Crawley makes a declaration to Pitt.
Peter Rabbit and Other Stories
“The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin”
by Beatrix Potter
Squirrel Nutkin goes along with a group of squirrels to Owl Island to gather nuts. However, while all the other squirrels are busy collecting nuts, Nutkin is often playing or making mischief. While the other squirrels present the island’s resident owl, Old Brown, with gifts to earn his permission to gather nuts, Nutkin dances and taunts the owl with sing-song rhymes. Eventually, after Nutkin annoys Old Brown many times, the owl captures Nutkin and tries to skin him alive. Nutkin escapes but not without getting his tail bitten off.
Vanity Fair
Chapter 36: How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
by William Makepeace Thackeray
A brief essay by the author is presented to the reader. Rawdon and Rebecca continue to live on chance. An earlier incident involving Rawdon is revisited.
The Age of Innocence
Part 1, Chapter 4
by Edith Wharton
Archer and May, now newly engaged, pay a visit to their many friends and relatives. Mrs. Mingott assists May in her wedding preparations.
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
Chapter 21: The Christian's Death
by William Wells Brown
Georgiana's death leads to an early release of the slaves.
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court
Chapter 9: “The Tournament”
by Mark Twain
The Yankee makes plans to start a newspaper. Because of a mix-up, Sir Sagramor challenges the Yankee to a battle. The king suggests to the Yankee that he should go out adventuring to gain reknown in order to make himself more worthy to fight Sir Sagamor.
Logic: Deductive and Inductive
“Chapter 22”
by Carveth Read, M.A.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Chapter I: “The Adventure of the Empty House”
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The story opens with the murder of Ronald Adair. Holmes tells Watson his account of tangling with Professor Moriarty and explains his expectation that someone will attempt to murder him. He sets up a dummy across the street, which is shot with an airgun. The killer is arrested.
Crime and Punishment
Part 1, Chapter 7
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov's attack on Alyona and Lizaveta is interrupted suddenly by two men. Raskolnikov narrowly escapes.
Wuthering Heights
Chapter 16
by Emily Brontë
After Catherine's daughter Cathy is born, Catherine dies two hours later. Edgar and Heathcliff take turns watching over Catherine's body, and then she is buried in the churchyard, feet from the moors.
Silas Marner
Part 2, Chapter 17
by George Eliot
After a discussion with Priscilla, Nancy fears she is cause of Godfrey's disappointment.
The Number Concept
“Chapter 5”
by Levi Leonard Conant, Ph. D.
More on the history of number systems.
On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology
On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology
by Voltaire
Information regarding the discoveries contributing to mathematics and the problems in determining chronology.