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• Dracula - Chapter 8

  [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="466" caption="Whitby Abbey"][/caption] "There was undoubtedly something, long and black, leaning over the half-reclining white figure. I called in fright, 'Lucy! Lucy!' and something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white face and red, gleami

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 19: DRINK

  DRINK, concerning Tom Foster She could not believe that the tiny village of fifty years before had grown into a thriving town in her absence, and in the morning when the train came to Winesburg did not want to get off. "It isn't what I thought. It may be hard for you here," she said, and then the

• Call of the Wild - Chapter 6

  For the Love of a Man Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest. Buck experiences love for the first time, developing a strong affection for the man who saved his life and who proves an ideal master.

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 14

  Hester Prynne confronts old Roger Chillingworth. Illustration: Mandrake from chapter entitled "Hester and the Physician" in the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and engraved by A.V.S. Anthony. Courtesy of hawthornein

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 20: DEATH

  DEATH, concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard Doctor Reefy did not see the woman he had held in his arms again until after her death. On the summer afternoon in the office when he was on the point of becoming her lover a half grotesque little incident brought his love-making quickly to an e

• The War of the Worlds - Chapter 11

  At The Window: "It seemed indeed as if the whole country in that direction was on fire -- a broad hillside set with minute tongues of flame, swaying and writhing with gusts of the dying storm..." [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/chapter11-war.mp3]

• The War of the Worlds - Chapter 2

  The Falling Star: Henderson finds that the object that has landed in Horsell is much more than a meteorite. [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/chapter2-war.mp3]

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 14: THE TEACHER

  THE TEACHER, concerning Kate Swift On the winter night when she walked through the deserted snow-covered streets, a crisis had come into the life of the school teacher. Although no one would have suspected it, her life had been very adventurous. It was still adventurous. [audio:http://www.podtrac.