La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

I WRITE THIS sitting in the kitchen sink.

The Ambassadors

by Henry James

STRETHER'S FIRST question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was appare...

Five comedy sketches

by Kirk Buis

Comedy Sketches

by Davies, Paul

COMEDY SKETCHES

by S. Newman

Three Comedy Sketches

by Michael Kilgarriff

Five Comedy Sketches

by Kirk Buish

Comedy Sketches 2

by Davies, Paul

A bachelor girl

by Bernard Newman