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Rover (Part One)

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439

Aphra Behn - Rover (Part One)

The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen in...

3 hours 10 minutes

She Stoops to Conquer

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444

Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer

In She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night , a young lady pretends to be a servant in order to win the notice of a young man who is painfully shy around women of his own class. Hilarious misadventures and...

2 hours 23 minutes

Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation)

Plays

537

Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation)

«Prometheus Bound» is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered him to be...

1 hour 2 minutes

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

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466

John Ford - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

One of the most shocking plays produced in England during the reign of Charles I, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore chronicles the disastrous results of an incestuous affair between fatalistic Italian siblings, Giovanni and...

2 hours 42 minutes

Widowers' Houses

Plays

545

George Bernard Shaw - Widowers' Houses

This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed «unpleasant» because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences—as traditional Victorian theatre was expected to—but to...

1 hour 59 minutes

Enemy of the People

Plays

465

Henrik Ibsen - Enemy of the People

A small coastal town in Norway is experiencing an economic boom from its newly found hot springs. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann finds that the waters are contaminated and dangerous, the people refuse to accept his...

2 hours 57 minutes

School For Scandal

Humorous Fiction

483

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - School For Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the intrigues and scandals of the British upper classes. Lady Sneerwell wants to marry Charles Surface, while Joseph Surface wants to marry...

2 hours 56 minutes

Seven Against Thebes

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aeschylus - Seven Against Thebes

In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices...

1 hour 10 minutes

Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)

General Fiction

521

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)

Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight «Anne» novels she wrote. This book draws the focus back onto a single character,...

Mary Anderson and 11 more 11 hours 12 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

Mary Broome

Humorous Fiction

418

Allan Monkhouse - Mary Broome

Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values....

1 hour 54 minutes

Rivals

Humorous Fiction

445

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Rivals

The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable people went there to «take the waters», which were believed to have healing...

3 hours 3 minutes

Cymbeline

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434

William Shakespeare - Cymbeline

Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries...

3 hours 27 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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