Plays
582
Richard Steele - Lying Lover: or, The Ladies' Friendship
«The spark of this play is introduced with as much agility and life as he brought with him from France, and as much humour as I could bestow upon him in England. But he uses the advantages of a learned education, a...
2 hours 43 minutes
General
584
Ruth Plumly Thompson - Cowardly Lion of Oz (version 2)
Mustafa of Mudge has heard of the famous Cowardly Lion of Oz, and decides to capture him and put him into a zoo! He enlists the help of Bob Up and a clown called Notta Bit More — the master of disguise! The Cowardly...
5 hours 16 minutes
Travel Fiction
458
Artemus Ward - Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a...
2 hours 7 minutes
Modern (19th C)
573
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith - Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr. Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. It...
2 hours 17 minutes
Romance
587
William Harrison Ainsworth - Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2
The second volume of a romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the...
7 hours 36 minutes
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