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• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 8

    The Last Night: Dr. Jekyll "disappears;" Mr. Hyde is found -- dead.  

• The Great Gatsby - Chapter 8

  "Until long after midnight a changing crowd lapped up against the front of the garage, while George Wilson rocked himself back and forth on the couch inside. For a while the door of the office was open, and everyone who came into the garage glanced irresistibly through it. Finally someone said it w

• Siddhartha - Chapter 7

  Siddhartha becomes disillusioned with the Kamaswami way of life; Kamala becomes pregnant. Play Chapter 7 Download Chapter 7     Art: Siddhartha Meditating under a Tree, Kagaku Murakami 1938, Kahitsukan Museum, Kyoto    

• Siddhartha - Chapter 3

  The two ascetics find Gotama and Govinda leaves his friend. Play Siddhartha - Chapter 3 Download Siddhartha - Chapter 3         Art: wall painting in a Laotian temple, depicting the Bodhisattva Gautama (Buddha-to-be) undertaking extreme ascetic practices before his enlightenme

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 18: THE UNTOLD LIE

  THE UNTOLD LIE, concerning Ray Pearson There they stood in the big empty field with the quiet corn shocks standing in rows behind them and the red and yellow hills in the distance. Hal sensed it and because that was his way he laughed. "Well, old daddy," he said awkwardly,"come on, advise me. I'v

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 7, Part III: SURRENDER

  SURRENDER, concerning Louise Bentley The young man took Mary Hardy into his arms and kissed her. When she struggled and laughed, he but held her more tightly. For an hour the contest between them went on and then they went back into the parlor and Louise escaped up the stairs. [audio:http://www.po

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 20

    As he tries to find his true self, Arthur Dimmesdale encounters several temptations to act wickedly. Illustration: Wood engraving by Barry Moser for the Pennyroyal Press from the January 1991 edition of the Essex Institute Historical Collection, vol. 127, no. 1; originally printed in 1984 ed

• Robinson Crusoe -Chapter 17

  "In the meantime I fitted myself up for a battle as before, though with more caution, knowing I had to do with another kind of enemy than I had a first."