Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis

Every one has heard people quarreling.

Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

TRULY, 'thoughts are things,' and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence...

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning' letters.

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde

When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish ...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

'CAMELOT - Camelot,' said I to myself. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.

Medea

by Euripides

The Scene represents the front of MEDEA'S House in Corinth.

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.