Passage
Shere Khan Is Dead
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
With vengeance won at last, Mowgli must prove triumph means more than killing.
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Character
Buck
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
A powerful estate dog remade by rope, club, harness, love, and the pull of the forest.
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Place
The Rose-Bud
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
A ship with a pretty name hides a fortune in rot, if you know where to look.
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Passage
The Hideous Clatter
Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Their wild gamble must terrify the robbers, or they are all doomed.
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Character
Forest Beasts
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The beasts of the forest look to the trembling Lion after he defeats the terror that ruled their clearing.
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Passage
Chasing the White Rabbit
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
A single impossible detail turns curiosity into a chase she cannot resist.
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Object
The Hound Footprints
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
A mark in the ground turns a family ghost story into something real.
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Place
Gulliver's Stable
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift
A man home at last, choosing the smell of the stable over the company of his family.
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Passage
The Wrecked Spanish Ship
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
A desperate rescue turns grim when survival gives way to the wreck's human cost.
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Character
James Ryder / John Robinson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
A terrified hotel attendant whose theft rides through London inside a goose.
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Character
Nana
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
A Newfoundland nurse stands guard in the nursery until a human joke sends her outside on a chain.
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Character
The Parrot
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 01, Anonymous / traditional; translated and annotated by Sir Richard Francis Burton
A talking bird turns household secrecy into testimony.
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Passage
Back To My Old Freedom
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Bruised and disillusioned, he chooses humble freedom over the ruin of ambition.
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Passage
Flora's Torchlight Funeral
The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
After Flora's sacrifice, grief and pride mingle as the family honors her bravery.
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Passage
Jim Kills the Snake
My Ántonia, Willa Cather
A child's sudden courage collides with revulsion when terror leaves no room to flee.
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Passage
Prince Is Killed
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
One accident turns Tess's guilt into a terrifying question of how her family survives.
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Passage
A Father’s Charge
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, père
A father's blessing becomes a dare: can courage alone win a young noble's future?
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Passage
The Wild Ass Above Bahram
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Omar Khayyam
What remains of glory when kings vanish and even their triumphs are forgotten?
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Character
Voc
The Popol Vuh, Lewis Spence
A messenger bird carries word between household and heroes before the underworld summons is answered.
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Passage
Watching the Led Horse
Childhood, Leo Tolstoy
As his panic fades, a child's mind clings to motion to steady itself.
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Place
Norcombe Hill
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
A windswept hill under the stars where Gabriel's first hopes rise and then collapse.
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Object
Bataille the horse
Germinal, Émile Zola
The old horse below never sees daylight again, worked into the dark like the men.
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Object
Captain Flint the parrot
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
A bird squawks a dead pirate's greed on and on, until Jim cannot stop hearing it.
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Character
Argos
The Odyssey, Homer
The old dog recognizes Ulysses when the house still does not.
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Character
Sampáti
The Rámáyan of Válmíki, Valmiki
The aged bird whose far sight gives the despairing search party Sítá’s location.
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Object
Songbird in the golden cage
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
A caged bird set loose the day Siddhartha walks away from everything he owned.
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Object
Kiouni
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
When the railway runs out, an elephant bought at a wild price carries the wager onward.
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Passage
The Blue Flames
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Each stop deepens his dread: what secret draws the driver into wolf-haunted darkness?
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Object
Snakeskin
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Huck laughs off a warning, and Jim is the one who gets bitten.
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Passage
The Parrot at the Door
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
A chorus of half-understood voices turns welcome into irritation and uneasy foreboding.
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