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The Colored Cadet at West Point

Chapter 14: Incident, Humor, Etc.

by Henry O. Flipper

The author recalls a variety of incidents that occurred during his time at West Point, some being more pleasant than others.

Silas Marner

Part 2, Chapter 17

by George Eliot

After a discussion with Priscilla, Nancy fears she is cause of Godfrey's disappointment.

Phoebe is mesmerized by the story and tells Holgrave that she must return home for a short time. Holgrave tells Phoebe his feelings about Hepzibah and Clifford and that he senses trouble. Phoebe leaves.

The Marble Faun

Chapter XVIII: “On the Edge of a Precipice”

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Kenyon, Hilda, Donatello, and Miriam search for the chasm.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Chapter 34: The Colosseum

by Alexandre Dumas, pére

Franz and Albert ask their host, Signor Pastrini to procure a cart and ox for them, since a carriage cannot be found during Carnival. After a short while Signor Pastrini returns with an invitation to join the Count of Monte Cristo's carriage.

The Marble Faun

Chapter XXXVII: “The Emptiness of Picture-Galleries”

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hilda wanders through a picture gallery and feels the weariness and lonliness that accompanies it.

The Last of the Mohicans

Chapter 2

by James Fenimore Cooper

Magua agrees to lead Alice, Cora, and Major Heyward to Fort William Henry by means of a secret path. The group encounters an interesting stranger along the way.

The House of the Seven Gables

Chapter VI: “Maule’s Well”

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Phoebe wanders into the gardens and meets Holgrave. Phoebe walks into the house to see Hepzibah acting very strangely.

The Scarlet Letter

Chapter 5: “Hester at Her Needle”

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The narrator covers the events of the years after Hester’s imprisonment.

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Spring

by Henry David Thoreau

With the arrival of spring, Thoreau finally departs from Walden Pond.

The Yellow Fairy Book

The Magic Ring

by Andrew Lang

Martin saves the lives of a dog and a cat and gains a magic ring. The ring wins him the hand of a princess, but she does not want to marry a poor man and has him put into a tower to starve, accused of witchcraft. But his faithful friends bring him the magic ring and food, and soon the King lets him out, and he forgives his wife.

Crime and Punishment

Part 6, Chapter 4

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Svidrigailov discusses his relationship with Marfa Petrovana and current engagement, ensuring Raskolnikov that he no longer has any interest in Dunya.

Jane Eyre

Chapter XXXVI

by Charlotte Brontë

Jane contemplates her supernatural experience of the previous night, wondering whether it was really Rochester’s voice that she heard calling to her and whether Rochester might actually be in trouble. She finds a note from St. John urging her to resist temptation, but nevertheless she boards a coach to Thornfield. She travels to the manor, anxious to see Rochester and reflecting on the ways in which her life has changed in the single year since she left. Once hopeless, alone, and impoverished, Jane now has friends, family, and a fortune. She hurries to the house after her coach arrives and is shocked to find Thornfield a charred ruin. She goes to an inn called the Rochester Arms to learn what has happened. Here, she learns that Bertha Mason set the house ablaze several months earlier. Rochester saved his servants and tried to save his wife, but she flung herself from the roof as the fire raged around her. In the fire, Rochester lost a hand and went blind. He has taken up residence in a house called Ferndean, located deep in the forest, with John and Mary, two elderly servants.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Book Fifth, Chapter 1

by Victor Hugo

Claude Frollo receives a visitor in his laboratory. Jacques Coictier, accompanied by the aging Father Tourangeau, is shocked by Claude Frollo's views. As he departs, Father Tourangeau divulges his identity to Claud Frollo.

The Blithedale Romance

Chapter IX: “Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla”

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Coverdale studies the relationships forming between Hollingsworth, Zenobia, and Priscilla. He tries to exert his own influence within this circle.

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.

Vanity Fair

Chapter 22: A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Joseph, Rawdon and George receive orders.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Part 2, Chapter 11: The Sargasso Sea

by Jules Verne

The Sargasso Sea is explained in detail. Aronnax continues to ponder the possibility of freedom from the Nautilus.

The Story of Siegfried

Adventure 2: “Greyfell”

by James Baldwin

Siegfried visits Gripir and finds Greyfell.

The Jungle

Chapter 15

by Upton Sinclair

When Ona fails to come home from work one night, Jurgis learns that she is being taken advantage of by Connor, one of her supervisors. Jurgis attempts to kill Connor in a fit of rage, only to be arrested.