"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale……続きを見る
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details ……続きを見る
The Journal of Julius Rodman is a fictionalised account of the first travels across the Western Wilderness, over the barrier of the Rocky Mountains. This extraordinary journal details events of the ……続きを見る
"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a num……続きを見る
The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that oc……続きを見る
In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition……続きを見る
In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittis (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage. This methodical, boring and quiet little……続きを見る
"The Island of the Fay," is classified as an example of Poe's "plate articles"--brief essays that were written specifically to satisfy the taste of his diverse readers. In this work, however, Poe to……続きを見る
The Human Comedy (French: La Comédie Humaine) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (……続きを見る
This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage ……続きを見る
Silvio wants to marry Clarice who has to marry Signor Federigo who’s really Beatrice in disguise who’s come to Turin to find her love Florindo and the whole sorry mess is about to get a whole lot so……続きを見る
Five plays from around the country that illustrate the rich tradition of Indigenous storytelling as it flourishes in contemporary theatre.
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"Short story is capable of almost anything - a couple of thousand words to take you to an imaginary world, connect you with a character and leaving you with a smile or a broken heart. Nine Facets is……続きを見る
The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage features a wide variety of short pieces and one-act plays written by female and male suffragist writers between 1908-1914.
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Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the la……続きを見る
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The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was th……続きを見る
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At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of Ne……続きを見る
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In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a stro……続きを見る
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This volume offers the most comprehensive and critically up-to-date edition of Troilus and Cressida availa……続きを見る
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William Shakespeare is widely considered to have been the greatest writer in the English language and the ……続きを見る
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While the word “gentlemen” suggests that its heroes are adults, The Two Gentlemen of Verona is more intell……続きを見る
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Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shake……続きを見る
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King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 119……続きを見る
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Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general. This i……続きを見る
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Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's o……続きを見る
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"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Conven……続きを見る
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Love's Labour's Lost is an early comedy by William Shakespeare. Ferdinand, the King of Navarre, and his th……続きを見る
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Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his frien……続きを見る
Ce premier tome, de la série qui recense l’œuvre théâtrale de Caya Makhélé, est constitué des pièces suivantes : L’étrangère, Les travaux d’Ariane, Destins, Sortilèges et Quelque part en ce monde. C……続きを見る
