"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ in order to escape burdensome social obligations.
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is...
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, t...
The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...
**WATTYS 2018 SHORTLIST** (COMPLETED) The early 17th century England- a time when women were treated as mere commodities for their families and burdened with unreasonable expectations of beauty and mannerisms. In such a world, Lord Bradford raises his daughter, a girl of Indian descent named Saya, with all the love an...
There is a stage between childhood and adulthood that makes us all want to bang our heads into a concrete wall as if that will somehow make us forget the things we did in that cringe-worthy stage of adolescence. That golden era of bad haircuts, first and last dates, and that undeniable feeling of wanting to fit in. T...
{#3 in Non-Fiction as of May 3rd -- July 1st} This is a book for posting facts, problems, and other things about asexuality and aromanticism . Since I am asexual and lithromantic (a subcategory of aromanticism), and I've yet to see a book on ace and aros, I though I'd share my thoughts and things I've found on the Int...
The story of my son's hospitalization, severe brain damage, in a nursing home for the severely retarded for twenty three years, his eventual death in 2006, and the people that caused it !
The advice you will find here follows the Chicago Manual of Style which is widely used by American publishers. There are some variances in style from country to country (and even from American publisher to American publisher.) **It may be easier to search the Table of Contents, as there is no rhyme or reason right no...
El silencio de lady Melanie oculta un terrible secreto y Francis está dispuesto a todo para averiguarlo. Aunque esto implique casarse con ella. *** Francis, conde de Welltonshire ha tenido una vida difícil, pero al igual que Emmeline, su hermana menor, lo ha enfrentado todo con sabiduría y optimismo. El conde tiene d...
Cuanto de lo que divaga en nuestra mente es contenido por la existencia, cuantas veces no deseamos dibujar en un papel nuestros pensamientos, el día a día lleva a moldear una mente ya sea al abismo o la eternidad. Podría llamarse comúnmente un diario, yo diria que es una reminiscencia de mi propio viaje, en el que tra...