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Ivanov

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Anton Chekhov - Ivanov

Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in...

2 hours 31 minutes

Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed

Comedy

477

John Fletcher - Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed

John Fletcher's comedy (probably written and performed around 1611) is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in which, as the title suggests, the tamer will be tamed. Petruchio, the shrew-tamer, has been...

2 hours 34 minutes

Skin Game

Comedy

458

John Galsworthy - Skin Game

A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives...

2 hours 27 minutes

Twelfth Night (version 2)

Comedy

478

William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night (version 2)

Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated from each other by a shipwreck. Viola, believing her brother...

2 hours 17 minutes

Pride and Prejudice: A Play

Comedy

548

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice: A Play

Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters,...

2 hours 42 minutes

Major Barbara

Comedy

460

George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a millionaire armaments manufacturer. Their daughters Sarah and Barbara are both...

3 hours 14 minutes

Importance of Being Earnest (version 3)

Comedy

822

Oscar Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest (version 3)

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled «A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,» and has proved immensely popular since its first performance in 1895. The play certainly has its farcical and comic...

2 hours 11 minutes

Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2)

Comedy

471

William Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2)

Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four contentious lovers, a forest full of quarreling and mischievous fairies and adds...

2 hours 12 minutes

Candida

Comedy

517

George Bernard Shaw - Candida

Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene...

2 hours

Amazons: A Farcical Romance

Humorous Fiction

499

Arthur Wing Pinero - Amazons: A Farcical Romance

This 1895 farce inspired by the outlandish idea of women wearing pants, centers around the predicament of the three daughters of the eccentric Marchioness of Castlejordan, who determined to have sons, raised them like...

Malane 2 hours 40 minutes

Why Marry?

Comedy

476

Jesse Lynch Williams - Why Marry?

Why Marry? is a comedy, which «tells the truth about marriage». We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 7 minutes

Doctor's Dilemma

Humorous Fiction

515

George Bernard Shaw - Doctor's Dilemma

The Doctor's Dilemma is about Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, who has recently been knighted because of a miraculous new treatment he developed for tuberculosis. As his friends arrive to congratulate him on his success, he is...

3 hours 8 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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