Babbitt
Chapter 21
by Sinclair Lewis
George achieves a level of success as a member of the Booster's Club, and later learns some unsettling news regarding Riesling.
George achieves a level of success as a member of the Booster's Club, and later learns some unsettling news regarding Riesling.
Coverdale, Hollingsworth, and Foster are forced to take on an unhappy midnight search, with tragic results.
Jurgis is sentenced to thirty days in jail. Stanislova visits Jurgis in jail.
Jim rips free from the mast and swims to the island. He takes cover in the stockade and sees the pirates have taken over. He tries to run but is too late.
The narrator is taught to wear a saddle.
A typhoon destroys a harpoon boat as Ahab continues to put the crew in harms way unnecessarily.
Polynesia, having already convinced the doctor to take a vacation, attempts to influence even more. Doctor Dolittle and his friends begin their trip home.
The colony of cats take in an abused daughter, Lizina, and give her the fair treatment she deserves.
Talk of the Sabbath and Free-Will.
Ishmael explains the hierarchy of the whaling industry.
A doctor has a rather unusual conversation with a dying patient.
A poem to the vistas and vision from the heights of the Washington Monument and the vision of the man himself.
A story of a prince that escapes from his father and proves himself in battle with the help of three magical apples.
A story about a group of youths that steal the child of a Bunyip and turn the town into swans.
Jim is bitten by a snake, causing Jim to fear that he and Huck have incurred some bad luck. After Jim recovers, Huck goes ashore to get information disguised as a girl.
Having missed the China, Phileas searches for an alternative passage to Liverpool.
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. Marmaduke is at first left out of the baseball game and is very upset by it. However, he practices and he impresses the other boys when they let him join in.
The three children watch the Toyman make a boat for them to play with. As they play they also hear the commentary of the various animals in the barnyard.
"O! Nothing earthly save the ray"
Jo starts to sell her stories to provide for the family.
The author relates several particulars of the YAHOOS. The great virtues of the HOUYHNHNMS. The education and exercise of their youth. Their general assembly.
Ishmael enters the Whaleman's Chapel.
A destructive outburst by Ahab elicits varying responses from the crew.
Injun Joe is finally found, causing Tom to feel a sense of relief. Tom and Huck return to the cave.
A group of displace animals successfully defend themselves against robbers.