Kurtz dies on Marlow’s steamboat with the words “The horror!

Dorian Gray stabs his corrupted portrait with the knife he used to murder the painter Basil Hallward.

Maggie claims she is pregnant to secure Big Daddy’s estate for her husband Brick, and then she resolves to make the lie come true.

After a three-day chase, the white whale Moby Dick destroys the Pequod and kills Captain Ahab, who is dragged under by his own harpoon line.

Emma Bovary, buried in debt and abandoned by her lovers, poisons herself with arsenic and dies in agony.

Eilis Lacey, home in Ireland after her sister’s death, nearly settles into a new life with Jim Farrell.

Bathsheba Everdene marries the loyal shepherd Gabriel Oak after her husband, Sergeant Troy, is shot dead by her obsessed neighbor, Farmer Boldwood.

Oliver Marks reveals that James, not he, was responsible for Richard’s death, and that Oliver confessed to protect him.

Eva visits her son Kevin in prison after the school massacre he committed, and for the first time she hugs him.

Addie and Louis, two older neighbors, begin spending nights together to talk, but Addie’s son takes her away to live in a care facility.