Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at...
Redeemed In Blood
Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (née Douglas; 25 May 1855 – 7 November 1905), was a Scottish traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist. Her account of travelling...
The Taming Of The Shrew
The comedy begins with an induction in which we follow a drunken tinker being tricked into believing he is a nobleman. He then watches a play depicting nobleman Petruchio's...
Philoctetes
Sophocles' Philoctetes begins with their arrival on the island. Odysseus explains to Neoptolemus that he must perform a shameful action in order to garner future glory - to take...
Ruth (illustrated)
Ruth is a social novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in three volumes in 1853.Ruth is a young orphan girl working in a respectable sweatshop for the...
Strong As Death
"Strong as Death" is a melodramatic and intimate novel written by Guy de Maupassant in 1889. This is the penultimate novel by the French playwright. The...
Henry Viii
Henry VIII is a history play based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. The play opens with a conversation between the Dukes of Norfolk and Buckingham and Lord Abergavenny....
Peace
Trygaeus, a middle-aged Athenian, miraculously brings about a peaceful end to the Peloponnesian War, thereby earning the gratitude of farmers while bankrupting various tradesmen...
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night' centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola, disguised as Cesario, falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with...
Mansfield Park (illustrated)
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen.The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened, impoverished family sends her at age...
