Dracula
Chapter 20
by Bram Stoker
Harker determines the location of the missing boxes, and the men decide they must act quickly. Renfield is involved in a mysterious accident.
Harker determines the location of the missing boxes, and the men decide they must act quickly. Renfield is involved in a mysterious accident.
The second spirit takes Ebenezor to the Cratchit home.
Kenyon visits Donatello at the tower residence.
Walter is happy with married life, but determines to continue with his investigations of Fosco. He calls on Pesca for assistance.
Silas inquires about the identity of the child at the Christmas dance. Silas makes a decision concerning the child, viewing her as a gift rather than a burden.
Rat is about to leave on another adventure with the Sea Rat, but is stopped by Mole before departing.
All seems to be well at dinner later that evening, but Catherine receives a troubling letter from her brother, James.
Cathy nurses her father during the winter, she believes he is dying. Then, Cathy speaks to Heathcliff, who tells her Linton is sick because she cut off communication with him. The next day Nelly and Cathy leave to visit Wuthering Heights.
Madame de Saint-Meran falls ill and dies, the doctor treating her suspects foul play.
The plague is sweeping the countryside, so a prince takes many friends into his castle to save them. They live grandly and have a masked ball, but Death comes to the ball and kills everyone anyway.
As Dantes becomes desperate in his dungeon cell, his neighboring prisoner rescues him.
David admits his feelings for Dora to Miss Betsey, who reacts unexpectedly to the news. David attempts to recoup some money for Miss Betsey. Agnes informs David of her own family's situation.
Woot, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow continue on their journey. They decide to explore the city of the Loons and discover curious creatures that capture them. They escape and continue on their journey, their curiosity satisfied.
The duke and the dauphin are exposed as frauds. The gold is discovered when the deceased Wilks is exhumed. Huck escapes back to the raft, where he is once again joined by the duke and the dauphin.
Claude Frollo, unaware of Quasimodo's intervention, retreats to the countryside for a period of reflection. Claude Frollo fears he has seen a ghost.
Raskolnikov visits his mother, who is overjoyed to see him but taken aback by his behavior. Upon returning to his apartment, Raskolnikov encounters Dunya.
Maurice and his father are invited to America to offer assistance to their family members. The travel there is peopled with interesting characters and the excitement of a child gone overboard.
The mysterious woman of the graveyard is revealed.
The adventurers cross the Rubber Country and continue on to the caverns while Ruggedo, his Chief Magician, and his minions plan his strategy. They place the entrance to the Hollow Tube in their path and make it invisible.
The Ghost, sets sail one last time, headed towards the coast of Japan. After a period of rough weather, the exhausted couple find themselves in more familiar seas. Hump and Maud finally admit their true feelings.
Mr. Douglass remembers his mother.
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. In this story the rain keeps the children indoors until they turn the thought of a flood into an imaginative game in which they are pirates on a ship.
Having been deceived by the pirates, the Lost Boy's emerge from hiding only to be taken captive.
Little George returns, as does good fortune, to the Sedley house.
George's fantasies continue to negatively affect his home life, as he considers more drastic measures to ease his restless mind.