Various Readers

A Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th-century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality,...

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is...

The Music contained in this audiobook edition of "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" (BWV 988) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Duration - 2h 50m. Author - William Shakespeare. Narrator...

[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a...

Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich, the original of...

The Music contained in this audiobook edition of "Anthony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare, read by Various Readers, is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" (BWV 988) by Johann Sebastian Bach (Project "Open Goldberg")....

First known for her short stories (fifty were published), Glaspell also wrote nine novels, fifteen plays, and a biography. Often set in her native Midwest, these semi-autobiographical tales typically explore contemporary social issues, such as gender,...

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his...

Coriolanus is the latest in date of Shakespeare's tragedies. The evidence of style and several unusually persuasive internal allusions point to its composition in 1608 or 1609, immediately after Antony and Cleopatra. Of the stage history of the play...

Ruth Ogden (Dec. 27, 1853–July 2, 1927) was the pen name of Fannie Ogden Ide, a late 19th century American children's book author. Duration - 23h 26m. Author - Ruth Odgen. Narrator - Various Readers. Published Date - Thursday, 25 January 2024....

Cymbeline was first printed in 1623, at the end of the First Folio, among the tragedies, and under the title. The Tragedie of Cymbeline. The text was taken from a prompt-book copy, and was divided into acts and scenes; but it was so carelessly printed...

To know this novel by Henry James in all its forms, from the straight-forward first telling of the story in the CornhillMagazine in 1878 to its revision in the New York edition of 1909, including the preface to the latter and the reworking of the...

Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of "The Dead", the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners. The play was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance...

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist...

The Music contained in this audiobook complete edition of "Henry IV" by William Shakespeare is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 988). Duration - 10h 12m. Author - William Shakespeare....

The Music contained in this audiobook complete edition of "Henry IV - Part I" by William Shakespeare is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 988). Duration - 2h 6m. Author - William Shakespeare....

This audiobook contains Parts 1, 2 and 3 of "Henry VI", by William Shakespeare.The Music contained in this audiobook is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 988). Duration - 15h 9m. Author -...

The Music contained in this audiobook complete edition of "Henry VI - Part I" by William Shakespeare is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 988). Duration - 13h 44m. Author - William...

The Music contained in this audiobook complete edition of "Henry VI - Part II" by William Shakespeare is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 988). Duration - 20h 16m. Author - William...

The Music contained in this audiobook complete edition of "Henry VI - Part I" by William Shakespeare is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 988). Duration - 6h 46m. Author - William...

The Music contained in this audiobook complete edition of "Henry IV - Part II" by William Shakespeare is played by Kimiko Ishizaka, and taken from "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 988). Duration - 13h 20m. Author - William...

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain...

La Sainte Courtisane is an unfinished play by Oscar Wilde written in 1894.The original draft was left in a taxi cab by the author, and was never completed. It was first published in 1908 by Wilde's literary executor, Robert Ross. It has never been...

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the...