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Chapter Breaks - Short Literary Escapes — 61 episodes
Chapter Breaks | Paradise Lost – John Milton | Extract from Book I | Satan Awakens in Hell
Chapter Breaks | The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky | Part II, Book V, Chapter V | The Grand Inquisitor
Chapter Breaks | The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald | Chapter 9 | The Green Light Fades
Chapter Breaks | Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Chapters 1 & 2 | The Call of the Sea
Chapter Breaks | Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – Chapters 33 & 34 | The Proposal at Hunsford
Chapter Breaks | The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells | Chapters 4, 5 & 6 | The Cylinder Opens
Chapter Breaks | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll | Chapters 4 & 5 | The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill & Advice from a Caterpillar
Chapter Breaks | The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame | Chapter 1 | The River Bank
Chapter Breaks | The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas | Chapter 23 | The Island of Monte Cristo
Chapter Breaks | The Call of the Wild – Jack London | Chapter 2 | The Law of Club and Fang
Chapter Breaks | Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf | The Woman Across the Window
Chapter Breaks | Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë | Extract from Chapter 15 & Chapter 16 | Catherine & Heathcliff’s Final Meeting
Chapter Breaks | White Nights – Fyodor Dostoevsky | Fourth Night
Chapter Breaks | Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad | Extract from Chapter 3 | The Horror Revealed
Chapter Breaks | Walden – Henry David Thoreau | Chapter 2 | Living Deliberately
Chapter Breaks | Little Women – Louisa May Alcott | Chapter 13 | Castles in the Air
Chapter Breaks | Great Expectations – Charles Dickens | Chapter 39 | The Return of Magwitch
Chapter Breaks | The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov | Chapter 12 | Black Magic Revealed
Chapter Breaks | Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie | Chapter 3 | Come away, come away!
Chapter Breaks | Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy | Part I, Chapters 16-18 | The First Meeting
Chapter Breaks | Animal Farm – George Orwell | Chapter V | The Windmill Plan
Chapter Breaks | Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë | End of Chapter 27 | Jane Leaves Thornfield
Chapter Breaks | The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka | End of Chapter 3 | The Violin & Gregor’s End
Chapter Breaks | Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert | Part II, Chapter 12 | The Elopement
Chapter Breaks | Moby Dick – Herman Melville | Chapter 135 | The Chase – Third Day
Chapter Breaks | Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky | Part IV, Chapter 4 | The Gospel
Chapter Breaks | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll | Chapters VII & VIII | The Mad Tea-Party & The Queen’s Croquet-Ground
Chapter Breaks | White Nights – Fyodor Dostoevsky | First Night
Chapter Breaks | The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald | Chapter V | Gatsby & Daisy Reunite
Chapter Breaks | The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett | Chapter 12, Beginning of Chapter 13 | Might I Have a Bit of Earth?
Chapter Breaks | Frankenstein – Mary Shelley | End of Chapter 10, Chapter 11 | The Creature Awakens
Chapter Breaks | The Odyssey – Homer | Extract from Book IX | The Cyclops
Chapter Breaks | Animal Farm – George Orwell | Chapter I, Beginning of Chapter 2 | Old Major’s Dream
Chapter Breaks | Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen | Chapters 58 & 59 | Darcy & Elizabeth Reconciled
Chapter Breaks | Dracula – Bram Stoker | Chapter II | Arrival at Castle Dracula
Chapter Breaks | Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev | Chapters VI & VII | Nihilism & Generations
Chapter Breaks | The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) – Alessandro Manzoni | Extract from Chapter VIII | “Farewell, Mountains” (Addio, Monti)
Chapter Breaks | The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne | Chapter 2 | The Scaffold Scene
Chapter Breaks | Great Expectations – Charles Dickens | Chapters 58 & 59 | Pip’s Homecoming & Estella
Chapter Breaks | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo | Volume I, Book First, Chapters 5 & 6 | Quasimodo, Pope of Fools
Chapter Breaks | A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens | Extract from Stave One | Marley’s Ghost
Chapter Breaks | Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë | Chapter 9 | Catherine’s Secret
Chapter Breaks | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne | Chapters 7 & 8 | Nautilus
Chapter Breaks | Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad | Beginning of Part II | The Eldorado Expedition & The River Toward Kurtz
Chapter Breaks | Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf | Opening Passage | Clarissa’s Morning Walk
Chapter Breaks | Les Misérables – Victor Hugo | Volume V, Book III, Chapters 1 & 2 | The Sewer
Chapter Breaks | Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson | Chapters 11 & 12 | The Apple Barrel & The Mutiny Plot
Chapter Breaks | Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen | Chapters 28 & 29 | The Reunion & The Letter
Chapter Breaks | Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky | Part I, Chapter 7 | The Murder
Chapter Breaks | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain | Chapters 2 & 3 | The Whitewashing Game
Chapter Breaks | The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka – Chapter 1 | The Awakening
Chapter Breaks | Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë | Chapter 26 | The Interrupted Wedding
Chapter Breaks | Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne – Chapters 14 & 15 | The Descent
Chapter Breaks | Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – Chapters 22 & 23 | The Grand Ball
Chapter Breaks | Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert – Chapter 8 | The Ball at La Vaubyessard
Chapter Breaks | The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann - Chapter 1 | The Arrival
Chapter Breaks | Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - End of Chapter 4, Chapters 5 & 6 | The Creation
Chapter Breaks | The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde – Chapter 2 | The Portrait and the Pact
Chapter Breaks | The Wind in the Willows – K. Grahame – Chapter 7 | The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Chapter Breaks | The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - Chapters 20 & 21 | The flight
Chapter Breaks | Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Chapter 8 | The Fight with the Windmills