Category Archives: General
Romeo and Juliet (version 3)
Few narrative structures have shaped the architecture of Western dramatic tragedy quite like William Shakespeare’s...
Medea
Author(s): Euripides Euripides’ tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero...
Medea (Way Translation)
Author(s): Euripides Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth...
Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)
Author(s): Sophocles This is the second installment in Sophocles’s Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic...
Our Little Australian Cousin
Author(s): Mary F. Nixon-Roulet Another delightful look back at how people and children lived in...
Marion de Lorme
Author(s): Victor Hugo Marion de Lorme is a play about a famous French courtesan with...
Phaedra
Few theatrical works capture the agonizing friction between forbidden desire and unrelenting moral duty as...
Oedipus Rex (Murray Translation)
Author(s): Sophocles “Oedipus Rex” (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as “Oedipus the...
Orestes
Author(s): Euripides In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his...
Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks
Author(s): Oliver Optic A compilation of stories of the children of Riverdale who learn life...
Oedipus at Colonus
Author(s): Sophocles This is the second installment in Sophocles’s Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic...
Mary Queen of Scots
Author(s): Jacob Abbott There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind;...
Pollyanna
Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who...
Memoirs of a Country Doll
Author(s): Mary Curtis A doll tells the story of her adventuresome life in rural England....
Othello
Few psychological dramas dissect the destructive nature of human insecurity with the ruthless precision found...
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
Author(s): James Baikie Written primarily for children, James Baikie’s ‘peep’ at ancient Egypt is a...
Richard III
Author(s): William Shakespeare Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around...
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2)
Author(s): Johnny Gruelle This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his...
Oroonoko
Author(s): Thomas Southerne Based on Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel (which is one of the earliest...
Philoctetes (Campbell Translation)
Author(s): Sophocles Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a...
Our Little Japanese Cousin
Author(s): Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade Meet Lotus Blossom, our little Japanese Cousin and her little...
Our Little Brazilian Cousin
Author(s): Mary F. Nixon-Roulet A part of a series introducing young people to the lives...
Rosmersholm
Author(s): Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen....
Nature And Art
Author(s): Elizabeth Inchbald This is a novel by the author of the play Lover’s Vows...
Romeo and Juliet (version 4)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our...
Nelly: or, The Best Inheritance
Author(s): Lucy Ellen Guernsey This little story is written to illustrate the value of honesty...
Memoirs of a London Doll
Author(s): Richard Henry Horne This is a fictional work written in the early 20th century....
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children
Author(s): Flora J. Cooke Written for first through third graders, this book aims to expand...
Pee-Wee Harris
Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh Percy Keese Fitzhugh was an American author of nearly 100 books...
Pond And Stream
Author(s): Arthur Ransome This book is part of the author’s “Nature Books For Children” series...