Demons
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
the town that calls the bite on the governor an illness (Part One, Chapter II), the town that begins to admire Stavrogin over a single sentence (Part Two, Chapter IV), the town that laughs at the desecrated icon and at the young man in the hotel while only one woman kneels (Part Two, Chapter V), the honor that Karmazinov says is an extra burden for the Russian (Part Two, Chapter VI), the drawing room that votes without knowing what it votes for (Part Two, Chapter VII), the lamp lit for the police to see (Part Two, Chapter IX), the elite that falls apart before the governor (Part Two, Chapter X), the literary matinee where the people at the top fall silent (Part Three, Chapter I), the ball that ends in fire (Part Three, Chapter II), and someone's hand in the crowd (Part Three, Chapter III).