His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In addition to Dorian Gray, this volume represents all these genres, including such works as Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, 'The Happy Prince', 'The Critic as Artist', and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.Contents:FictionLord Arthur Savile's CrimeThe Happy PrinceThe Devoted FriendThe Picture of Dorian GrayCritical DialoguesThe Decay of LyingThe Critic as Artist Part IThe Critic as Artist Part IIPlaysSalomeLady Windermere's FanAn Ideal HusbandThe Importance of Being EarnestPoemsThe Harlot's HouseThe SphinxThe Ballad of Reading GaolPoems in ProseThe ArtistThe DiscipleThe House of JudgementAphorismsA Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-EducatedPhrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

    From short stories to poems, this has everything the great author has ever written in it.

    Politically radical, the essays ridicule militarism, prudery & religious intolerance. Ten were originally published in Max Eastman's magazine, The Masses, the 1st in '14. Following passage of the Espionage Act of '17, The Masses was suppressed by the US government on grounds it was detrimental to the war effort. Wood continued to write more discourses. In '27 Vanguard published a collection of 41 of them under the title Heavenly Discourse. Titles include: Is God a Jew; Marriage; God Receives a Delegation; Freedom; The Monkeys Complain; Birth Control; Anthony Comstock in Heaven; Prohibition; Billy Sunday Meets God; The US Must Be Pure; Billy Sunday Instructs God; A Fly Bothers God; St Peter Loses a Soul; Preparedness in Heaven; Prayer; Satan Brings the US into the War; A Pacifist Enters Heaven-in Bits; The Stupid Cannot Enter Heaven; T.R. Enters Heaven; Prince Buttinsky; God, Paul & Satan on Christianity; Satan Loses His Mind; God's Picnic; God's Picnic & the Playwright; Rabelais & Censors; Censorship; God & Christ Have a Merry Christmas; Denver Prays for Rain; God on Catholicism & the KKK; God Advises Peter as to the Church; Bishop Wm Montgomery Brown Enters Heaven; God & St Peter Discuss Theology; Joan of Arc-Heretic & Saint; Satan Regains His Reason; Charles Evans Hughes Visits Heaven w/out a Passport & Is Deported; England's General Strike; The Lame Duck & Imperialism; The Golden Rule; Satan Asks for Help; Noah's Cruise; & God's in His Heaven-All's Wrong w/the World. In Billy Sunday meets God, Sunday is surprised to find people he condemned in heaven. "Why, there is Herman Morgenstern. I sent him to hell. He kept a family beer garden on 4th Avenue in New York...What is he doing here?" Jesus replies "I liked him. He was a gentle, charitable soul." Sunday objects that he kept a beer salon, & Jesus replies "I lived with publicans & sinners." Sunday complains about the presence in Heaven of a woman who had had an illegitimate child; Jesus replies "I liked her. The one with her is Mary Magdalen." From A Pacifist enters Heaven—in bits:BATTERED SOUL: I'm a pacifist. GOD: A what? BATTERED SOUL: A pacifist. I believe in Jesus & peace. GOD: So you are a Christian? BATTERED SOUL: O, no. I really do believe in peace. In a discourse on Preparedness in Heaven, God decides to prepare for a war against Satan.GABRIEL: I am afraid Heaven won't stand for that. Jesus has preached peace too long. GOD: ...We must first frighten them, fill them with fear, then with hate. For example, headlines in the Heavenly Herald: "Horrible Atrocities of Satan," "Make the Cosmos Safe for Jesus," "Satan Threatens Your Halos," "Satan Disembowels a Cherub," "Satan Rapes the Ten Foolish Virgins" & so on... GABRIEL: But none of this will be true. GOD: True? Of course, it won't. Don't be a fool, Gabriel. You can't work up a war—preparedness, I mean—on the truth. This is war—I mean preparedness—& we simply must lie—the more horrible the lies the better.

    Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she? In this comedy of unfaithful manners, Constance (a not-desperate housewife) has surprising ideas of her own about extra-marital activity.

    These fifty poems--among them many ballads that later became part of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, and Baal--reveal the tremendous range and versatility of Brecht's expression. His first and best book of poetry, Manual of Piety uses the traditional form of devotional literature to provide both an irreverant spoof and a serious critique of the post-World War I European (and more specifically, German) culture that gave rise to fascism. His characteristically sly wit combines with mordant social commentary to make Manual of Piety Brecht at his most hilarious--and also his most brutally incisive.

    For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents Webster’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Webster’s life and works * Concise introductions to the plays and other texts * ALL 11 plays, with many rare texts * Also includes the rare spurious plays, first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original Jacobean texts * Excellent formatting of the plays * Easily locate the scenes or acts you want to read with special contents tables * Includes Webster’s complete poetry and other works - spend hours exploring the author’s works * Special criticism section, with three essays evaluating Webster’s contribution to Jacobean literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Plays SIR THOMAS WYATT WESTWARD HO NORTHWARD HO THE WHITE DEVIL THE DUCHESS OF MALFI THE DEVIL’S LAW-CASE ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE A CURE FOR A CUCKOLD MONUMENTS OF HONOUR THE FAIR MAID OF THE INN APPIUS AND VIRGINIA The Disputed Plays THE THRACIAN WONDER THE WEAKEST GOETH TO THE WALL The Other Works TO MY KIND FRIEND, MA. AN. MUNDY ODE PREFIXED TO STEPEHN HARRISON’S ‘ARCHES OF TRIUMPH’, 1604 INDUCTION AND ADDITIONS TO THE 3RD EDITION OF MARSTONS ‘THE MALCONTENT’, 1604 TO HIS BELOVED FRIEND, MASTER THOMAS HEYWOOD A MONUMENTAL COLUMN NEW CHARACTERS TO HIS INDUSTRIOUS FRIEND, MASTER HENRY COCKERAM VERSES ACCOMPANYING THE PORTRAIT ENGRAVING OF ‘THE PROGENY OF THE MOST RENOWNED PRINCE JAMES’ c.1633 The Criticism INTRODUCTION TO JOHN WEBSTER by William Hazlitt JOHN WEBSTER by Algernon Charles Swinburne THE THIRD DRAMATIC PERIOD by George Saintsbury Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles