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Henry VIII
by William ShakespeareHenry VIII is a collaborative history play, written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All Is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623...
Coriolanus
by William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare's tragedy "Coriolanus" is based on the life of courageous military leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Volscian forces lead by Aufidius loses the battle to Roman Army lead by Caius Marcius and siege of Corioli. His victory earns the nickname Coriolanus from the Roman commander Cominius and consul. Based on his mother wish, Coriolan..
Danger! and Other Stories
by Arthur Conan DoyleDanger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection's title story, "Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius", was written 18 months before the outbreak of World War I and first published in the Strand Magazine in July 1914. It depicts an imaginary country in Europe fighting - an..
Guards Came Through and other Poems
by Arthur Conan DoyleGuards Came Through and other Poems is a collection of poem written by Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, who was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson...
The Wheels of Chance
by H. G. WellsThe Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll is comic novel written by H. G. Wells. Wheels are the best invention by mankind, and the bicycle turned out to another milestone. The novel narrates the holiday travel of Protagonist Mr. Hoopdriver on his ancient bicycle. Somehow this novel resembling the work of Three men in a boat, narrating the protagonist..
A Story of the Stone Age
by H. G. Wells"A Story of the Stone Age" is a short story written in 1897 by H. G. Wells. The story was featured in three parts between May and August 1897 in The Idler magazine, and was later released in collected editions. The story is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named Ugh-lomi, who bonds with the young woman Eudena and kills his rival, th..
Kipps
by H. G. WellsOne of his own favorite works Wells' social novel Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul narrates a simple man inability to live in a society in which he was not groomed. Young orphan Arthur Kipps raised by his aunt befriends with neighborhood boy Sid and eventually falls in love with his sister Ann. An unexpected possession of huge money changes his ch..
Doctor Ox's Experiment
by Jules VerneDr. Ox's Experiment is a short story by the French writer and pioneer of science-fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town of Quiquendone. As the town bore no charges, ..