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A Woman of No Importance is a drama produced by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premiered n 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in...

Salome is a work of tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight...

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith that was first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have an enduring appeal,...

Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary book by the American author Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. This edition has been formatted for...

The New Freedom has two meanings. The first consists of the campaign speeches and promises of Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential campaign; it called for limited government. The second meaning, the more common, comprises the Progressive programs enacted by Wilson as president during his first...

"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories composed by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles"...

The Ballad of the White Horse is poetry by G. K. Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The...

The Mystery of the Sea, a novel by Bram Stoker, was first published in 1902. Stoker is best known for his 1897 novel Dracula, but The Mystery of the Sea contains many of the same compelling elements. It tells the story of an Englishman living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love...

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short work by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books":...

Nightmare Abbey was the third of Thomas Love Peacock's books to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year by T. Hookham Jr of Old Bond Street and Baldwin, Craddock & Joy of Paternoster Row. The novel was lightly revised by the...

The Symposium is a philosophical work by Plato dated c. 385–370 BC.  It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love, and (in latter-day interpretations) is the origin of the concept of Platonic love. Love is examined in a sequence of speeches by gentlemen...