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Love is the Best Doctor

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Molière - Love is the Best Doctor

Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is driven to the streets where he finds a quack and his daughter's disguised...

52 minutes

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Cabinet Minister

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444

Arthur Wing Pinero - Cabinet Minister

Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exaggerates their sentiments and magnifies their foibles. In this light it is...

3 hours 4 minutes

Arms and The Man

Satire

444

George Bernard Shaw - Arms and The Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular of his plays. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 51 minutes

Physician In Spite of Himself

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527

Molière - Physician In Spite of Himself

The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refreshing coolness throughout it all. The way in which Sganarelle is dubbed, or...

1 hour 11 minutes

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

493

Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as «A Square», to deride the Victorian aristocracy and...

Linda Olsen Fitak and 1 more 4 hours 31 minutes

Devil is an Ass

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491

Ben Jonson - Devil is an Ass

An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Squire Fabian Fitzdottrel, he finds Fabian currently beset by con men, cheats,...

3 hours 22 minutes

Misanthrope

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525

Molière - Misanthrope

Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows — Alceste might actually...

2 hours 10 minutes

Impromptu of Versailles

Humorous Fiction

488

Molière - Impromptu of Versailles

The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they had prepared, the King has just asked for an entirely new piece — to be ready...

51 minutes

Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

Satire

467

Tobias Smollett - Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

Sir Launcelot Greaves goes around the country with his comic squire, trying to be a knight and perform good deeds. This novel is written in the style of Don Quixote by the author of The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker...

Tom Penn and 2 more 10 hours 19 minutes

School for Wives

Humorous Fiction

475

Molière - School for Wives

In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...

1 hour 52 minutes

School for Husbands

Humorous Fiction

477

Molière - School for Husbands

In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...

1 hour 22 minutes

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Inconstant

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445

George Farquhar - Inconstant

Subtitled «The Way to Win Him:, this play is placed in Paris — a change from many others of Farquhar's plays which used English settings — though still presented to the same English audience. „This comedy… had a...

2 hours 2 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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