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• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 11: THE THINKER

  In Winesburg, Seth Richmond was called the "deep one."  "He's like his father," men said as he went through the streets. "He'll break out some of these days. You wait and see." [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.greatbooksaudio.com/audio/winesburg11.mp3] This chapter is broug

• The Great Gatsby - Chapter 9

  "...not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 23

  The revelation of the scarlet letter. Illustration: "Shall we not meet again?" from the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Courtesy of hawthorneinsalem.org [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/chapter23.mp3] If yo

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 12: TANDY

  TANDY, concerning Tandy Hard "I came here to quit drinking," he said, and tears began to run down his cheeks. He did not look at Tom Hard, but leaned forward and stared into the darkness as though seeing a vision. "I ran away to the country to be cured, but I am not cured. There is a reason." He t

• Winesburg, Ohio - Introduction and Chapter 1

  [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="363" caption="Sherwood Anderson"][/caption] Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. His childhood and youth were spent in in Clyde, Ohio, population about 3,000, were scarred by bouts of poverty, but he also knew some of the pleasures of pre-in

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• Dracula - Chapter 5

  Mina writes to Lucy about Jonathan; Lucy writes to Mina about her suitors...

• Dracula by Bram Stoker

  Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. It is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers