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Drama.

26 books

Adventure

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

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Adventure

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

by Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.

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Drama

The Clansman

by Thomas Dixon, Jr.

A historically significant but racist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., presented with explicit contextual framing in this DotBooks edition.

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Drama

Flamsted quarries

by Mary E. Waller

A novel set against the granite quarries of rural New England, following lives bound to the land and the stone they cut from it.

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Classics

The Comedies of Terence: Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes

The six surviving comedies of Rome's most elegant playwright, rendered into plain English prose with helpful notes.

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Drama

Blue-grass and Broadway

by Maria Thompson Daviess

A novel by Maria Thompson Daviess set against the contrast of country and city life, its title playing rural Kentucky against the bright lights of the stage.

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Classics

Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Goethe's towering drama of a scholar who bargains with the devil, rendered into English in the meters of the original.

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Classics

Love's Labour's Lost

Shakespeare's sparkling early comedy of a king and his lords who forswear love for study, only to be undone by the arrival of a princess and her ladies.

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Drama

Plays

A collection of dramatic works gathered in a single volume, offering the pleasures of the stage on the page.

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Drama

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.

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Classics

Lysistrata

Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.

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Classics

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a

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Drama

The Real Adventure

A novel of a young woman seeking a life of her own beyond the expected roles of marriage and comfort.

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Classics

Camille

by Alexandre Dumas fils

Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

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Classics

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

A witty Shakespearean comedy of exile, disguise, pastoral courtship, and reinvention in the Forest of Arden.

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Classics

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: From the Quarto of 1604

Christopher Marlowe's mighty tragedy of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power.

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Classics

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.

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Drama

Carmen

by Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée’s compact novella of obsession, freedom, jealousy, and fatal desire gave the world one of literature’s most enduring heroines.

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Children

Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

by Sophocles, translated by Gilbert Murray

Sophocles' towering tragedy of the king who unknowingly fulfills a terrible prophecy, here in a rhyming English verse translation with explanatory notes.

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Classics

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.

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Classics

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.

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Classics

Billy Budd

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville's haunting final work.

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Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted desire.

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Classics

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

A Scottish general’s ambition curdles into tyranny after a prophecy twists his fate.

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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

A grieving prince spirals into doubt and delay after a ghostly accusation.

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