Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson


Omar Khayyám - 2010
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Love's Labour's Lost


William Shakespeare
    Ferdinand, the king of Navarre, insists that his court join him in a pledge to undertake a strict regimen of study and celibacy. The grudging compliance of three noblemen is sorely tested — as is the king's own resolve — with the arrival of a French princess and a trio of comedy attendants.

When We Are Married


J.B. Priestley - 1938
    Or so they think.

Quality Street: A Comedy


J.M. Barrie - 1902
    Pheobe Throssel and Valentine Brown are a young couple separated by the Neopoleonic wars for ten years, only to find themselves the unfortunate victims of time and age upon their reunion. This story of lost love, spinsters, secret disguises, and the complexities of human emotion will enchant readers today as much as it did the audiences of New York and London over a century ago.

She Stoops to Conquer


Oliver Goldsmith - 1773
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A Fair Barbarian


Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1880
    Octavia Bassett arrives from Nevada with her trunks of fancy clothes, diamond jewelry, and gold coins for the poor. She soon becomes friends with Lucia Gaston, the repressed granddaughter of the village matriarch, Lady Theobald.

Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales


Guy de Maupassant - 2004
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The Grey Woman and Other Tales


Elizabeth Gaskell - 1865
    The Grey Woman and Other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a collection of short fiction with varying genres. With thrilling, suspenseful, sentimental and moral narratives, Gaskell’s Victorian gothic tales proves that she can master any genre.

Fallen Angels


Noël Coward - 1925
    A farce with a hilarious drunk scene for two stylish comediennes.

The Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid


Thomas Hardy - 1896
    With one hand he was tightly grasping his forehead, the other hung over his knee. The attitude bespoke with sufficient clearness a mental condition of anguish. He was quite a different being from any of the men to whom her eyes were accustomed. She had never seen mustachios before, for they were not worn by civilians in Lower Wessex at this date.

Spreading The News


Lady Augusta Gregory - 1997
    

Not That It Matters


A.A. Milne - 1919
    A squeaky collar round the neck of a man is a comment, not upon the collar, but upon the man. That man is unlucky. Things are against him. Nature may have done all for him that she could, have given him a handsome outside and a noble inside, but the world of inanimate objects is against him.

Dark Lady of the Sonnets


George Bernard Shaw - 2001
    [echoing him] Mary! Mary! Who would have thought that woman to have had so much blood in her! Is it my fault that my counsellors put deeds of blood on me? Fie! If you were women you would have more wit than to stain the floor so foully. Hold not up her head so: the hair is false. I tell you yet again, Mary's buried: she cannot come out of her grave.

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson


Alfred Tennyson - 1901
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L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas


John Milton - 1900
    The poetry is effervescent as it is spontaneous gush of thoughts, rhythmic and the lyrical measures delight the reader and bound him to read till it ends.