Selections from the world's greatest short stories; illustrative of the history of short story writing;

Patient Griselda, from the "Decameron" of Boccaccio. Rewritten in English by the editor.--Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp, from "The Arabian nights".--Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving.--A passion in the desert, by Honoré de Balzac. Rewritten in English by the editor.--A child's dream of a star, by Charles Dickens.--A Christmas carol, by Charles Dickens.--A princess's tragedy, from "Barry Lyndon", by W.M. Thackeray.--The gold-bug, by Edgar Allan Poe.--The great stone face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.--The necklace, and The string, by Guy de Maupassant. Rewritten in English by the editor.--The man who would be king, by Ruyard Kipling.--How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie, from "A window in Thrums", by J.M. Barrie.--On the stairs, from "Tales of mean streets", by Arthur Morrison.

The daughter of the storage [electronic resource] : and other things in prose and verse /

The daughter of the storage.--A presentiment.--Captain Dunlevy's last trip.--The return to favor.--Somebody's mother.--The face at the window.--An experience.--The boarders.--Breakfast is my best meal.--The mother-bird.--The amigo.--Black Cross farm.--The critical bookstore.--A feast of reason.--City and country in the fall.--Table talk.--The escapade of a grandfather.--Self-sacrifice: a farce-tragedy.--The night before Christmas.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, part I, Engmont, Hermann and Dorothea; Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus;

The tragedy of Faust -- The tragical history of Doctor Faustus -- Egmont -- Hermann and Dorothea.

Shakspere quarto facsimiles /

--v. 25 Romeo and Juliet; the 1st quarto, 1597.--v. 26 Romeo and Juliet; the 2nd quarto, 1599.--v. 27 King Henry V; the 1st quarto, 1600.--v. 28 King Henry V; the 3rd quarto, 1608.--v. 29 Titus Andronicus; the 1st quarto, 1600.--v. 30 Sonnets; the 1st quarto, 1609.--v. 31 Othello; the 1st quarto, 1622.--v. 32 Othello, the 2nd quarto, 1630.--v. 33 King Lear; the 1st quarto, 1608.--v. 34 King Lear; the 2nd quarto, 1608.--v. 35 Lucrece; the 1st quarto, 1594.--v. 36 Romeo and Juliet; the undated quarto.--v. 37 First part of the Contention; the 1st quarto, 1594.--v. 38 True tragedy; the 1st quarto, 1595.--v. 39 Famous victories of Henry the fifth; the earliest known quarto, 1598.--v. 40-41 The troublesome raigne of John, king of England; the 1st quarto, 1591.--v. 42 Richard the third; the 3rd quarto 1602.--v. 43 Richard the third; the 6th quarto, 1622.

The adventures of Odysseus, literary studies.

The adventures of Odysseus.--Herodotus' portrait of Xerxes.--Euripides' tragedy of Hecuba.--The adventures of Aeneas.--Les faits de Pantagruel and La vie de Gargantua.--The giant symbolism in Rabelais's Gargantua.--Racine's Remarques sur l'Odyssée d'Homère.--Contemporary French plays from ancient sources: Anouilh's Antigone; Sartre's Les mouches.--Cocteau's Le machine infernale and Sophocles' Oedipus rex.

Opere postume di Vittorio Alfieri /

Mode of access: Internet.

Las bacantes, o Del origen del teatro.

"Discourso leido ante la R. Academia española el 12 de junio de 1921 en la recepción publica de D. Adolfo Bonilla y San Martin y contestación del Sr. D. Gabriel Maura Gamazo conde de la mortera."

Die Vertheilung der Rollen unter die Schauspieler der griechischen Tragoedie.

Mode of access: Internet.

Beiträge zum verständnis der tragischen kunst.

Was ist tragisch? Zugleich ein wort für den Sophokles.--Die Orestie des Aeschylos und Goethes Iphigenie.--König Oedipus von Sophokles und Schillers Braut von Messina.--Euripides Hippolytos und Phädra von Racine.--Euripides Medea und das Goldene vliess von Grillparzer.

The land war in Ireland: being a personal narrative of events, in continuation of "A secret history of the English occupation of Egypt,"

I. Gladstone declares for home rule.--II. "Under protection of the league."--III. The general election of 1886.--IV. Vatican politics.--V. Cairo in 1887.--VI. Failure of the Wolff convention.--VII. The Persico mission.--VIII. Balfour chief secretary.--IX. My arrest at Woodford.--X. In gaol.--XI. The papal rescript.--XII. The Parnell Tragedy. A postscript.--Appendices: A. The canon of Aughrim. B. Mr. Blunt to Mr. John Morley. C. Mr. Blunt to the Marquess of Salisbury. D. Mr. Blunt to Mr. Evelyn, M. P. E. Mr. Blunt to Mr. John Morley.--Index.

The supernatural in the tragedies of Euripides as illustrated in prayers, curses, oaths, oracles, prophecies, dreams, and visions

Bibliography: p. 105-106.

Recueil des meilleures pièces dramatiques faites en France, depuis Rotrou jusqu'a nos jours; ou le théâtre francois; tragédies.

Mode of access: Internet.

Iphigenie in Aulis : Oper in 3 Akten /

Libretto by Du Roullet based on Racine's tragedy.

A series of plays : in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind /

"Each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy."

The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Vols. 1-2, 7-8; c1911.