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...

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...

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...

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...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

If you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on-foot, you shall see ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

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 ...

The House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote the draft of Henry V that became the First Folio text in the early summer of 1599.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

Antonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

S. Wells Williams correspondence

by S. Wells Williams

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...