Gregor Samsa, who woke up transformed into a giant insect, dies alone in his room after being wounded by an apple his father threw and rejected by his family.

Tom Sawyer reveals that Jim was already free, because his owner Miss Watson died and freed him in her will, so the elaborate “escape” Tom staged was a game.

Bill Masen, his partner Josella and their small group escape their Sussex farm, which is besieged by triffids and threatened by a military-style government.

Pip, now humbled after losing his fortune and his benefactor, meets Estella years later in the ruins of Satis House.

Franklin Blake learns he took the Moonstone from Rachel Verinder’s room while sleepwalking under the influence of opium secretly given to him.

Eleven-year-old Marty Preston gets to keep Shiloh, the beagle he hid from its abusive owner, Judd Travers, by striking a deal: Marty works twenty hours for Judd, and Judd agrees to give him the dog.

Mark Renton, after a big heroin deal in London with his friends Begbie, Sick Boy, Spud and Second Prize, steals the £16,000 and leaves, giving Spud his share.

Quentin “Q” Jacobsen follows Margo Roth Spiegelman’s clues to the “paper town” of Agloe, New York, and finds her living in an old barn.

Walter Hartright proves that Laura Fairlie, who was swapped with her lookalike half-sister Anne Catherick and locked in an asylum under Anne’s name, is alive.

Winnie Foster, who learned that the Tuck family became immortal by drinking from a spring, chooses not to drink the water, even though Jesse Tuck asks her to at seventeen.