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• 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

• Metamorphosis - Part 2

  He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value - in order to see what had been happening there.

• Dracula - Chapter 16

  The four men enter Lucy Westenra's tomb; Van Helsing urges Arthur to restore her to the "true dead."

• Robinson Crusoe - Chapter 12, Part II

  Continuing to search for savages

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 16

    Hester Prynne meets with Mr. Dimmesdale in the forest. Illustration: "Pearl," from the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Illustration drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and engraved by A.V.S. Anthony. Courtesy of hawthorneinsalem. [audio:http://m

• The War of the Worlds - Chapter 3

  Inside the crater, an investigation of the mysterious cylinder begins. [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/chapter3-war.mp3]

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 1

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter attained an immediate and lasting success because it addressed spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risque subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establi

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 8

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