The Sea-Gull

EBook Description: Chekhov's play dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts among four characters: The ingenue Nina Zarietchnaya, the fading actress Irina Abkadina, her son the symbolist playwright, Constantin Treplieff; and the famous middlebrow story writer, Boris Trigorin.

Two of the dramas contained in this volume are the most celebrated ofall Calderon's writings. The first, "La Vida es Sueno", has been translated into many languages and performed with success on almostevery stage in Europe but that of England

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Based on the Faust story, this is a play by Christopher Marlowe, in which a man sells his soul to the Devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level, this play illustrates the decay of a person who chooses material gain (by commanding the Devil to suit his desires) over spiritual belief, and in so doing loses his soul.

The Two Lovers of Heaven

The drama revolves around the two lovers of heaven Chrysanthus and Daria, a drama of early Christian Rome.

The Way of the World

Written in 1700, a masterpiece of English comedy, and one of the most intellectually accomplished.

The Well of the Saints

A three-act play by Irish playwright J.M. Synge, revolving around a couple of blind beggars who are mislead about their appearance by the townspeople in rural east Ireland two or more centuries ago

Three Comedies

Included in this volume are the following three comedies by Norwegian playwright, Bjornstjerne Bjornson: A Gauntlet, Leonarda, and The Newly Married Couple.

Three Dramas

The three dramas in this volume are: The Editor; The Bankrupt; and The King by Norwegian playwright, Bjornstjerne Bjornson.

Uncle Vanya

Details the disappointments of Ivan Voitski ("Uncle Vanya"), who comes to see that he has wasted his life managing the business affairs of his brother-in-law, Serebrakoff--who has squandered his entire career in a futile attempt to succeed as an academic and scholar.

Winter In July

In 2019 many more nations than the superpowers have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them anywhere on Earth. Kirby Yates, 40, ex-Army, has a good job keeping the grounds at the under-construction Energy House Museum at Hammett�s Mill, ND, population 240. The town sees only the economic windfall. Kirby suspects that the huge excavation is actually a future bomb shelter. His girlfriend, LISA, is a peace activist. She becomes the museum�s curator without knowledge of its true purpose; conflict of interest would cost her her job. When the building of the bomb shelter is confirmed,

Wuthering Heights

This book is about the idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humor, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imaginative of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned and tragic facts which reinforce the statement

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