The Wild Swans At Coole
  • By W.B. Yeats
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park where he assembled this collection poetry. Literary scholar Daniel Tobin writes that Yeats was melancholy...

The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • By Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • Publisher: Classica Libris

The Scarlet Pimpernel was first published in 1905 and has proved to be Orczy’s most famous and popular novel. The work was originally rejected by publishers, so she...

Paradise
  • By Dante Alighieri
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. the structures of the Inferno and Purgatory were based on different classifications of sin, the structure of...

The Mill On The Floss
  • By George Eliot
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a Mill owner, has a very close relationship with her brother. As they grow older they are forced apart by her wayward emotional ties to the son of...

Man And Superman: A Comedy And A Philosophy
  • By George Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old...

The Secret Garden
  • By Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives. She is...

The White Peacock
  • By D. H. Lawrence
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Lawrence's first novel is set in the Eastwood area of his youth and is narrated in the first person by a character named Cyril Beardsall. A misanthropic gamekeeper makes an...

The House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

The House with the Mezzanine features a romantic story of a young artist and Eugenia, one of the two sisters living in the house. Eugenia longs to discover the domain of the...

Amphitryon
  • By Moliere
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

After his wedding night with beautiful Alcmene, Amphitryon leaves to participate in a war. Jupiter, who is fascinated by Alcmene's beauty, come to earth under the appearance of...

The Turn Of The Screw
  • By Henry James
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

An unnamed narrator listens to a male friend reading a manuscript telling the story of how a young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and...

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