Romance
426 books
Comedy
483
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing (version 2)
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. Much Ado About...
2 hours 32 minutes
Comedy
498
William Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream (version 3)
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland,...
2 hours 16 minutes
Romance
540
Louisa May Alcott - Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as she called them) published in 1863 by a weekly pulp magazine. This was during...
1 hour 48 minutes
Romance
508
Stendhal - Chartreuse of Parma (The Charterhouse of Parma)
This book is more often called The Charterhouse of Parma in English, because «Charterhouse» is the English word for a Carthusian monastery, whereas «Chartreuse» is the French word. The book tells the life of a...
18 hours 55 minutes
Drama
495
Harry Clifford Fulton - Jean Valjean; or, The Shadow of the Law
A late 19th-century stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in English, The Shadow of the Law dramatizes the struggles of Hugo's legendary characters: Jean Valjean, the former convict; his relentless pursuer,...
2 hours 42 minutes
Romance
538
Chrétien de Troyes - Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart
This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face many trials, physical, emotional, and social, to rescue her. (Summary by...
4 hours 20 minutes
