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  • Elektra

    A New Translation

    by Sophocles ...
    Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Elektra is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg.Elektra masterfully explores the consequences of revenge—both for those who bear the brunt of violence and for those who become obsessed by hatred under its ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A TALE OF TWO CITIES [Deluxe Illustrated Edition]

    The Complete & Original Dicken's Classic With Illustrations Plus BONUS Entire Audiobook

    A TALE OF TWO CITIES [Deluxe Illustrated Edition], The Complete & Original Dicken's Classic Plus BONUS Entire Audiobook*This Ebook Features Amazing Dynamic Chapter Navigation & Professional Formatting Links for a Premium Reading Experience!A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies ... Read more

    $1.98 USD

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    And Other Plays

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce, playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • John Buchan: The Best Works

    by John Buchan ...
    This ebook compiles John Buchan's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle", "Mr. Standfast", "John Macnab", "The Island of Sheep" and "The Watcher by the Threshold". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time Tells Tales: Tale Two - Love, Loss, Lust and Lies

    Series Book 2 - Time Tells Tales
    This is the sequel to Tale One - Alfred's Tale, and tells the story from the perspective of Catherine, the love of Alfred's troubled life. Here we meet this young girl, Catherine, on the verge of womanhood, who has to deal with the unexpected death of her Mother under suspicious circumstances and the fallout of her Father's grief and the interference of the Catholic Church.Catherine is bought up a ... Read more

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  • The House of Desires

    Translated by Catherine Boyle ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others.Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Foundation Pit

    Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

    Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, offer a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Canvas: A Secret from the Holocaust

    Using the Holocaust as the background, this creative historical fiction delivers tension, emotions and the horrors of war. Great and enduring love bring the story of Julienne Dupree-Fairchild to its conclusion.Born of a privileged family, Julienne is raised by a nanny named Suzannah. There is a disconnect between Julienne and her mother who has little to do with the rest of the household.This ... Read more

    $4.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Autumn, With Love

    Series Book 2 - Seasons of Belle
    THE SEASONS OF BELLE READING ORDER:The Summer of Everything (#1)To Autumn, With Love (#2)The Colour of Winter (#3)The Spring Farewell (#4)A year on from Paris and Belle Hamilton is still searching for solace after all that she’s lost.When her father falls gravely ill, an astonishing truth is revealed, causing her to question everything she knew about herself.Searching for answers, she travels to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Throne of Olympus Volume 1: "The Empty Crown"

    by Peter Jessop ...
    Set against the backdrop of true, world events, “Dallas” and “I Claudius” unite, resulting in a deeply engaging and richly entertaining experience. The protagonists in this passion-fuelled saga of our times are members of two rival banking dynasties – the Villon Family in Europe and the Ravenscroft Family in the U.S.A. – who are arch-enemies. But it was not always so. Around the mid-nineteenth ... Read more

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  • Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    George Duchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution are performed regularly. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Doll's House and Other Plays

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Deborah Dawkin, Erik Skuggevik ...
    A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading figure in the theatre of his day, sending shockwaves throughout Europe and beyond. A Doll's House scandalized audiences with its free-thinking heroine ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • R.U.R.

    by Karel Capek ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Plays
    One of the classics of twentieth-century theater, this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely executed play by Czech playwright Karel Čapek (1890–1938) looks to a future in which all workers are automatons, or "robots" — a word this play made a permanent part of the language. The robots revolt when their manufacturing formula is changed to make them more irritable and to give them the human ability ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seagull (Stage Edition Series)

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Laurence Senelick ...
    Series Book 0 - Stage Edition Series
    “Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library JournalAnton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov’s most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas. He brings this timeless ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Revelations

    by James Eddy ...
    Series Book 9 - Diamonds
    ‘There was no laughing and joking that morning. There could be no relief, no celebration of a fruitful life lived to a natural conclusion. That had never been an option.’It begins at a funeral, where the truth is hidden away inside the pages of a book no one was ever meant to read. But these words were never destined to stay silent. They are words with the power to make some sense of a girl’s life ... Read more

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  • The Chase

    by Adina Stevens ...
    How could a simple thing as driving home on the motorway put your life in danger? All Diane wanted to do was get home to her bed after making the airport run. The last thing that she though would happen to her would be that her life would be put on the line by another driver who seem to take pleasure in scaring her as she tried to make her way home on that dark cold and dreary December night.Diane ... Read more

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  • The Living Room

    A Play

    by Graham Greene ...
    The illicit affair of a devout woman in London ignites a shattering family crisis in the author’s “ruthlessly honest” first play (The Guardian).In a dour Holland Park house with rooms and secrets long shuttered live three unyielding forces for morality: rigidly religious sisters Helen and Teresa, and their brother, a Roman Catholic priest. Into the lives of this insular trio comes their young ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death By Drowning

    by Duncan James ...
    There is one day every year when the good people of Insch, near Stranraer, keep well away from their Kirk. It is the home of the ensign of HMS Rodney, and strange things happen on the anniversary of the sinking of the Bismark.Tourist Charles Toogood knew nothing of this when he paid a nostalgic visit to honour the memory of his Grandfather, the ship’s gunnery officer. He ended up paying the ... Read more

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  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

    Series series Modern Classics
    Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Colour of Winter

    Series Book 3 - Seasons of Belle
    THE SEASONS OF BELLE READING ORDER:The Summer of Everything (#1)To Autumn, With Love (#2)The Colour of Winter (#3)The Spring Farewell (#4)After enduring a long-distance relationship for three years, Belle and Andre are finally reunited.Now, blissfully married and living in Andre’s Tuscan family home, they have their whole lives ahead of them. They’re desperate to start a fami... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middle Class Gentleman, English translation of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

    by Moliere ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name Molière, (January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known dramas are Le Misanthrope, (The Misanthrope), L'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mimezis / Odlazak

    Series Book 8 - Saveznici
    Dva romana koja pripovedaju sudbinu Konstantina Teofilisa čovak koji u prvom romanu ne može da se odluči, a u drugom je na svoju odluku nateran surovim obrtom sudbine. Andrej Nikolaidis usput ne propušta priliku da zakači savremeno crnogorsko i postjugoslovensko društvo surovom ironijom i još surovijim cinizmom. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Brenda is no more

    by Heather King ...
    This is a short story, one of many. But, it is very precious to me, very close, and although not biographical,has some important issues that I have at last dealt with.Please read this, it may not be comfortable, but it is life. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus