Irish Literature Classic

L'ambassadeur américain voyage en Angleterre avec sa famille et s'installe dans un chateau hanté.

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Chi conosce Edgar Wallace per i suoi thriller resterà stupito di questo suo romanzo leggero. Scritto nel 1909, è una ironica e delicata satira dell'atteggiamento inglese verso la nobiltà. In certi punti si può quasi pensare che Woodhouse, che ha fatto di questo tipo di romanzi la sua fortuna, si sia ispirato a questo tipo di scrittura.

C'est l'été indien, la nature sauvage à perte de vue mais l'homme se blesse et voit s'éloigner son compagnon de route inexorablement. Déboussolé par la douleur et bientôt la faim, l'homme s'accroche à la vie.

À Fordham, par une nuit d'hiver, Ruth, la jeune apprentie de Mrs Mason n'a pas le temps de s'ennuyer : demain, c'est le grand bal de la ville et toutes les couturières sont mobilisées ! Choisie pour sa beauté, elle se tiendra dans le vestibule de la salle de bal afin de réparer les accrocs aux robes des danseuses et fera la connaissance de M. Bellingham. Ils sympathisent puis naît une relation qui vaut à Ruth d'être congédiée. Malgré le jugement de la société, ils passent des jours heureux dans le pays de Galles.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1590 or 1591. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and tropes with which he would later deal in more detail. The play deals with the themes of friendship and infidelity, the conflict between friendship and love, and the foolish behaviour of people in love.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by the great Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

La magistral pelicula de Kubrick volvio a dar vigencia a una de las novelas mas cínicas de la literatura inglesa del siglo XIX, "Las memorias de Barry Lindon" de Thackeray, obra que fue una critica a la cantidad de aventureros que habian ocupado posiciones importantes en la Inglaterra de sus tiempos y donde trato de mostrar como las riquezas hacian que la sociedad perdonara cualquier medio de lograrlas.

Welcome to a survey of the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar. In this survey we will examine Julius Caesar by principle section. In the first section we will examine the plot of Julius Caesar. In the next section we will examine the characters in the play.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Hammerpond Park Burglary' is a tongue in cheek story about a burglary which initially goes badly wrong...but then unexpectedly goes extraordinarily right.

When Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole she discovers the extraordinary world of Wonderland, where a magical adventure begins. It’s not long before Alice finds herself attending a very unconventional tea party and taking part in a peculiar game of croquet, all in the company of such mysterious and unforgettable characters as the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Mock Turtle.

Der junge Aristokrat Camille verliebt sich in den temperamentvollen Pianisten Teleny und erlebt mit ihm seine ersten sexuellen Abenteuer. Beide fühlen, dass sie zusammengehören, einer das alter ego des anderen ist, und doch zerbricht ihre Liebe auf tragische Weise.

A dramatized, abridged performance of Alice in Wonderland with Eva Le Gallienne, Bambi Linn, and Margaret Webster.