This play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts among four (4) characters: The ingenue Nina Zarietchnaya; the fading actress Irina Abkadina; her son, the symbolist playwright, Constantin Treplieff; and the famous middlebrow story writer, Boris...
Based on the Faust story, this is a play by Christopher Marlowe in which a man sells his soul to the Devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level, this play illustrates the decay of a person who chooses material gain (by commanding the Devil to suit his desires) over spiritual belief, and in...
Details the disappointments of Ivan Voitski ("Uncle Vanya"), who comes to see that he has wasted his life managing the business affairs of his brother-in-law, Serebrakoff--who has squandered his entire career in a futile attempt to succeed as an academic and scholar.
Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical.
Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground is a psychological study of the deepest darkest skeletons in the closet of the human mind.
The verses printed in this book are quoted from Dr. Opera Stories from Wagner's translations of The Rhine-Gold,The Walkuere,Siegfried and Goetterdaemmerung, by the kind permission of the publishers, Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. An occasional sentence in several of the stories is borrowed...
John Harmon fakes his own death in order to learn more about the woman he is supposed to marry to earn his father's inheritance.
Pandora is written by Henry James
This story is fundamental to the understanding of the origin and creation of this great resource, and David’s personal relationships and the connection between those people and the original four FGG members. Download this FREE e-Book today!
The Companions of Jehu is written by Alexandre Dumas pere.