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The Philanderer is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Philanderer was written in 1893 but the strict British censorship laws at the time meant that it was not produced on stage until 1902. This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. They were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences as the traditional Victorian theatre was expected to but to raise awareness of social problems and to censure exploitation of the labouring class by the unproductive rich. The other plays in the group are Widowers Houses and Mrs. Warrens Profession.

Gaston Lerouxs The Phantom of the Opera is a timeless Gothic classic that takes readers deep into the mysterious world beneath the Paris Opera House. The novel is filled with dark and eerie atmospheres, showcasing themes of love, obsession, and the power of music. Lerouxs descriptive writing style creates a haunting and suspenseful tone, keeping readers on the edge of their seats as they unravel the secrets of the Phantom. The books blend of romance, tragedy, and mystery makes it a captivating read for fans of Gothic literature. Lerouxs work is often compared to other Gothic classics, such as Dracula and Frankenstein, solidifying its place in the literary canon. Gaston Leroux, a French journalist and author, drew upon historical events and legends to create the compelling story of The Phantom of the Opera. His background in journalism allowed him to bring a sense of realism to the novel, while his creative imagination added a level of intrigue and suspense. Lerouxs ability to blend fact and fiction makes the book both entertaining and thought-provoking. I highly recommend The Phantom of the Opera to any reader looking for a chilling and engaging Gothic tale. Lerouxs masterful storytelling and unique narrative style make this novel a must-read for those who appreciate classic literature and enjoy being transported to a world of mystery and intrigue.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."The Phantom of the Opera" is a story inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century. Opera singer Christine triumphs at the gala on the night of the old managers retirement. Her old childhood friend, Raoul, hears her sing and recalls his love for Christine. At this time, there are rumours of a phantom living at the Opera and he makes himself known to the managers through letters and malevolent acts. Sometime after the gala, the Paris Opera performs Faust, with the prima donna Carlotta playing the lead, against the Phantoms wishes. During the performance, Carlotta loses her voice and the grand chandelier plummets into the audience... Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantome de lOpera, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name.

The Persians (Gr: Persai; Lat: Persae) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. First produced in 472 BCE, it is considered the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre, and also the only extant Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events. It recounts the Persian response to news of their military defeat under Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE, one of the decisive episodes in the ongoing Greco-Persian Wars.

Seis bons amigos acabam de ingressar em uma faculdade americana. Eles dividem seus quartos e até mesmo seus pertences.O que eles não sabiam era que algo muito valioso porém perigoso havia sido deixad

An old Danish artist falls in love with the colours and beauties of the nature of Carovigno, a town located in the Italian area of Salento, and moves to live there in the centre of the old town. During his daily creative work he will paint and photograph something or someone he wouldnt have to Three local wild boys, mocked and excluded by the conformist society of the town, live a mad life. Their immoderacy will lead them to get into a mess, causing pain, despair, and making them fall into the abyss of murders. Inspector Matteo Lorenzi, from the Milanese flying squad and the journalist Cristina Petruzzi from Radio Popolare, will end up to interrupt their holiday to investigate and collaborate with the local police on some murders. A tragedy, a real disaster of the modern age that will lead to explode the myth of conformism, personal interest, opportunism and selfishness of a world of adults who are no longer taking care of the needs of new generations. However, are the real marginalized people those young guys who express clearly their discomfort, by taking synthetic drugs to crack their brain, or that multitude of young people who, hidden by a quiet and submissive appearance, try to restrain an unprecedented social rage caused by the lack of a future prospect? In the breathtaking, sad and painful end of the book, characterized by blood and tragedy, the young Tony the Scrawny, the leader of the marginalized gang of Carovigno, will reveal the reverse of the medal: the dark side of a selfish society, which aims at chasing success, money and power by abandoning its children and young people to their own devices, to a solitary future made of pain, despair and death.

Sleep on! awake! what skills your sleep to me-- Me, among all the dead by you dishonoured-- Me from whom never, in the world of death, Dieth this curse, "Tis she who smote and slew", And shamed and scorned I roam? Awake, and hear My plaint of dead mens hate intolerable. Me, sternly slain by them that should have loved, Me doth no god arouse him to avenge, Hewn down in blood by matricidal hands.

The Old Vic, one of the worlds great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. In 1870 the Vic became a music hall, then a temperance tavern and, from 1912, under Lilian Baylis, both an opera house and the home of Shakespeare. By the 1930s great actors were happy to go there for a pittance - John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, Peggy Ashcroft, and Laurence Olivier. The Vic considered itself a national theatre in all but name.After the second world war the Royal Ballet and the English National Opera both sprang from the Vic, and the National Theatre, at last established in 1963 under Olivier, made its first home there. In 1980 the Vic was saved from becoming a bingo hall by a generous Toronto businessman. Since 2004 Kevin Spacey, Hollywood actor and the winner of two Oscars, has led a new company there, and toured the world.

Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which were joined together at the beginning of the 20th century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the family moved to a larger house between Hanley and Burslem.[1] Bennett was educated locally in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Bennett was employed by his father but the working relationship failed. Bennett found himself doing jobs such as rent-collecting which were uncongenial. He also resented the low pay; it is no accident that the theme of parental miserliness is important in his novels. In his spare time he was able to do a little journalism, but his breakthrough as a writer came after he had moved from the Potteries. At the age of 21, he left his fathers practice and went to London as a solicitors clerk.Bennett won a literary competition hosted by Tit-Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full-time. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for 75 (equivalent to 10,000 in 2015). He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over four years later, his first novel, A Man from the North, was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine.From 1900 he devoted himself full-time to writing, giving up the editorship. He continued to write journalism despite the success of his career as a novelist. In 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper. As well as the novels, much of Bennetts non-fiction work has stood the test of time. One of his most popular non-fiction works, which is still read to this day, is the self-help book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. His diaries have yet to be published in full, but extracts from them are often quoted in the British press (font: Wikipedia)

The Odyssey (/??d?si/;[1] Greek: ?? Odsseia, pronounced [o.ds.sej.ja] in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. Scholars believe it was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.[3] In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres (Greek: ?) or Proci, who compete for Penelopes hand in marriage. It continues to be read in the Homeric Greek and translated into modern languages around the world. Many scholars believe that the original poem was composed in an oral tradition by an aoidos (epic poet/singer), perhaps a rhapsode (professional performer), and was more likely intended to be heard than read.[2] The details of the ancient oral performance, and the storys conversion to a written work inspire continual debate among scholars. The Odyssey was written in a poetic dialect of Greeka literary amalgam of Aeolic Greek, Ionic Greek, and other Ancient Greek dialectsand comprises 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter.[4][5] Among the most noteworthy elements of the text are its non-linear plot, and the influence on events of choices made by women and serfs, besides the actions of fighting men. In the English language as well as many others, the word odyssey has come to refer to an epic voyage. The Odyssey has a lost sequel, the Telegony, which was not written by Homer. It was usually attributed in antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta. In one source, the Telegony was said to have been stolen from Musaeus by Eugamon or Eugammon of Cyrene (see Cyclic poets) (font: Wikipedia)

George Robert Gissing was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891), and The Odd Women (1893) (font: Wikipedia).

Large door opening on snowy landscape at back of stage.Peter Sabouroff and Michael.Peter (warming his hands at a stove). Has Vera not come back yet, Michael?Mich. No, Father Peter, not yet; tis a good three miles to the post office, and she has to milk the cows besides, and that dun one is a rare plaguey creature for a wench to handle.Peter. Why didnt you go with her, you young fool? shell never love you unless you are always at her heels; women like to be bothered.Mich. She says I bother her too much already, Father Peter, and I fear shell never love me after all.Peter. Tut, tut, boy, why shouldnt she? youre young and wouldnt be ill-favoured either, had God or thy mother given thee another face. Arent you one of Prince Maraloffskis gamekeepers; and havent you got a good grass farm, and the best cow in the village? What more does a girl want?Mich. But Vera, Father PeterPeter. Vera, my lad, has got too many ideas; I dont think much of ideas myself; Ive got on well enough in life without em; why shouldnt my children? Theres Dmitri! could have stayed here and kept the inn; many a young lad would have jumped at the offer in these hard times; but he, scatter-brained featherhead of a boy, must needs go off to Moscow to study the law! What does he want knowing about the law! let a man do his duty, say I, and no one will trouble him.Mich. Ay! but Father Peter, they say a good lawyer can break the law as often as he likes, and no one can say him nay.

English novelist and social commentator, chiefly known as a founder of the science fiction genre.His early novels, called "scientific romances", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds and are often thought of as being influenced by the works of Jules Verne. He also wrote other, non-fantastic novels which have received critical acclaim, including the satire on Edwardian advertising Tono-Bungay and Kipps.Wells also wrote non-fiction. His classic two-volume work The Outline of History [1920] set a new standard and direction for popularised scholarship.Works

Novelist, born at Wakefield. In his novels he depicted the environment and struggles of the lower and lower middle classes with a somewhat pessimistic and depressing realism, although his last work, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, seemed to usher in the dawn of a somewhat brighter outlook. His other novels include Demos [1886], Thyrza [1887], The Nether World [1889], New Grub Street [1891], Born in Exile [1892], In the Year of Jubilee [1894], and The Town Traveller [1898]. He died at St. Jean de Luz in the Pyrenees.

In every moment, we are part of the infinite stories that the universe is telling us and that we are telling the universe.Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Beginning with a poem, All we do, Booker prize-winning novelist Ben Okri presents his considered thoughts on the purpose and meaning of stories, concluding with a series of condensed Notes to the modern storyteller. The collection is completed with a stoku a brief tale on the theme.Based on decades of honing his art, this stimulating booklet gives a glimpse into the mind of a master of contemporary storytelling.

The Music Cure is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Music Cure is a short comedy sketch by George Bernard Shaw.Lord Reginald Fitzambey, Under-Secretary of State for War, is in a distressed state. He explains to his doctor that, knowing the British army would soon be put on a vegetarian diet, he bought shares in the Macaroni Trust. Brought before a parliamentary committee for profiteering, Fitzambey had tried to explain that macaroni was a normal investment. Now he is highly sensitised to anything distressing. His doctor prescribes rest and offers him opium pills.

The Mule-Bone, written by renowned African American poet Langston Hughes, is a satirical play that engages the complexities of race relations and the significance of the cultural heritage of African Americans in the early 20th century. The play follows two friends, Dave and Bones, who enter into a heated debate about which one of them will be able to buy a mule at an auction.

In "The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah," John S. Lindsay offers an incisive exploration of the interplay between Mormon culture and theatrical expression in the 19th century. Through a blend of historical narrative and critical analysis, Lindsay chronicles the evolution of theater in Utah, examining how its growth was both shaped by and helped shape the socio-religious environment of the time. The work navigates through the rich tapestry of performances, shedding light on influential figures and productions, all while situating these developments within the larger context of American theater history. John S. Lindsay was deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of Utah, which profoundly influenced his work. His experiences as a playwright and community leader in a region rich with artistic expression and religious fervor provided him with unique insights into the challenges and triumphs faced by artists within a predominantly Mormon society. LindsayAos background lends authenticity to his analysis, making the discussions around censorship, morality, and community identity particularly resonant and compelling. This book is essential for scholars of American theater, religious studies, and cultural history. Lindsays meticulous research and passionate prose invite readers to gain a deeper understanding of how theater served as a mirror and a catalyst for social change within the Mormon community. Whether you are a student, educator, or simply curious about the dynamics of faith and art, this work will enrich your perspective.

This play was acted for the first time on September 9, 1668. In it, Moliere has borrowed from Plautus, and has imitated several other authors, but he far surpasses them in the treatment of his subject. The picture of the miser, in whom love of money takes the place of all natural affections, who not only withdraws from family intercourse, but considers his children as natural enemies, is finely drawn, and renders Molieres Miser altogether more dramatic and moral than those of his predecessors.Moliere acted the part of Harpagon.

The Misanthrope, a comedy of manners in five acts and in verse, was written by Moliere in 1666.It is one of the best of Molieres plays and one of the greatest of all comedies spotlighting the absurdities of social and literary pretension."The Misanthrope" is set in the fashionable social milieu of seventeenth-century Paris. Alceste, the misanthrope of the title, is disgusted by the hypocrisy, injustice, and overall corruption in human society. Alcestes concern with the Issue of justice has to do with the fact that he is embroiled m several lawsuits, the outcome of which are determined not by which party is in the right but by who has the most influence in court. Nonetheless, Alceste is in love with Celimene, a young widow with a reputation for flirtation and for surrounding herself with suitors and who is a prime example of the insincerity that Alceste despises in others. In the final act, Celimene is confronted by all of her suitors for her lack of honesty when they discover that she has promised her love to each of them while ridiculing each of the others behind his back. Finally, fed up with society and fearing the consequences of various legal battles, Alceste vows to run off and live in seclusion in the wilderness.This play satirises the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws, which all humans possess. The play differs from other farces at the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Celimene as opposed to the traditionally flat characters used by most satirists to criticise problems in society. It also differs from most of Molieres other works by focusing more on character development and nuances than on plot progression. The play, though not a commercial success in its time, survives as Molieres best-known work today. Much of its universal appeal is due to common undercurrents of misanthropy across cultural borders.