Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. It is often performed as a stand-alone play. In it, three characters from Mozart’s...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving,, both appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies...
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the...
A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French...
The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin in Brazil that encountered prehistoric animals. It has...
A volume of selected stories from Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Praised by Walter Scott and Lord Byron for its prose, this collection consists of...
The Road to Oz takes Dorothy on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It dtarts near her home on Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas when she helps a shaggy...
There's something just a bit off about the new aid worker, Janet McCann. The tall redhead with flaming ringlets arrives in Laos on a steamy August morning in 1961, on the same day...
“More and more, she came to love humans; more and more, she wished she could rise up among them.”The youngest daughter of the Sea King cannot wait to be old enough to go to...
Three compelling Sherlock Holmes Mysteries in one book narrated by the celebrity actor Mark Deakins.Story one: "Double Trouble in York"Upon hearing that I had to consciously...