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This is a bitter, satiric comedy which concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who pretends to be dying in order to profit from his greedy acquaintances. 

Bold Robin Hood, skilled archer, huntsman, robber of the rich and champion of the poor, has many exciting adventures in Sherwood Forest. Friar Tuck, Maid Marion, Little John, and Will Scarlet are part of his merry band of outlaws.

Haunting memories of the sins of the father and Oswald's heredity are the moving themes of this drama

This sequel to Puck of Pook's Hill is full of historical adventures and fun. "Cold Iron", "Gloriana", "The Wrong Thing", "Marklake Witches", "The Knife and the Naked Chalk", "Brother Square-Toes", "A Priest in Spite of Himself", "The Conversion of Sir Wilfred", "A Doctor's Medicine", "Simple Simon", and "The Tree of Justice" are the titles of these tales. Interspersed among them are various poems, including one of Kipling's most famous, "If".

"The Fox and the Grapes", "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg", "The Hare and the Tortoise" and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" are among these more than 50 selections that abound in manners and morals.

This is the inspiring autobiography of Helen Keller, blind and deaf since childhood, who experiences the wonder and joys of discovery of the world around her and of literature.

This work vividly examines the lives of artists, nobles, commoners, and members of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the Reign of Terror in Paris. It is through our protagonist that we see how increasing power corrupts ever increasingly. And casting her dark shadow over all is Madame Guillotine.

Considered by many to be the greatest epic poem ever written, this biblical tale relates the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Despite God's prohibitive warning, Satan entices Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. Dire consequences ensue.

Self-made cotton mill owner and braggart Josiah Bounderby marries Thomas Gradgrind's daughter, Louisa. He later accuses a dismissed laborer of stealing from his bank, but the culprit's identity is revealed as a surprise to everyone! This Dickens tale, about the pratfalls of utilitarianism and the gifts of joy and love, is an underappreciated classic.

A Cockney flower girl is transformed into a charming woman of the world by a professor of phonetics. This is the play that was later to be adapted as the musical, My Fair Lady.

In this early novel by Edna Ferber, a successful, charming businesswoman watches and encourages her handsome son as he faces the challenges and pressures of the advertising world.

With the South Seas as a background for such stories as "The Pacific", "Mackintosh", "The Fall of Edward Barnard", "Red", "Rain", and "The Pool", we experience scenes of passionate love, tragedy, and violence - all described in Maugham's beautiful prose.

In this play by the author of The Forsyte Saga, a theft at a house party causes turmoil, resulting in an exposure of prejudices and a straining of loyalties.

Chris' "shell shock" blocks out fifteen years of his life as he returns home to his wife, only to remember and revisit Margaret, the earlier love of his life. The plot of this book takes place during World War I, but the consequences of battle are just as devastating today.

Everyone thinks Augustus Melmotte, a new arrival in London, is a wealthy financier - until he is caught in a forgery scheme. This is a satirical look at immorality and dishonesty as Trollope saw them in the worlds of business, politics, journalism, literature, and society on his return from the colonies in 1872. Scoundrels, coquettes, swindlers, and intriguers abound in this novel, which is often called his masterpiece.

This is the grandaddy of them all! Bram Stoker's masterpiece, presented as a series of letters and diary entries, tells the tale of Count Dracula who has lusted for the blood of and control over his victims for centuries.

This 1896 edition of the famous historical romance, full of narrow escapes and harrowing exploits, tells the story of D'Artagnan and the three valiant musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, as well as the evil machinations of a certain milady.

Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful.

In this wickedly funny play, a seemingly ideal couple and their charming, privileged friends surmount such details as selling government secrets, theft, and bribery with love triumphant over all.

Set in Ireland, the upper-class courtship of Lord Ballantine for Fanny Windham and the lower-class romance between Martin Kelly and Ann Lynch meet with many obstacles.