Books on Topic: 'Characters'

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface impli...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known today for the...

This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face. Marcella...

A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring in...

Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by Ri...

This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at...

“This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have not the time...

Mary Louise Burrows, a young and inquisitive girl, spends her summer vacation in the tranquil town of Cragg's Crossing with her grandfather, Gran'pa J...

Humphry Clinker follows a group of characters as they journey through 18th-century England, encountering a colorful cast of personalities and experien...

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces written by Charles Dickens that offer a snapshot of Victorian London. Through a blend of humorous obse...

Christoph Martin Wieland's "Aristipp und seine Zeitgenossen" is a multi-volume novel that delves into the flourishing period of Hellenistic philosophy...

Juffrouw Lirriper's Legaat is een collectie van kerstverhalen geschreven door Charles Dickens, met een focus op de levens van gewone mensen in het Vic...

Italian is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, first published in 1797. The novel tells the story of a young Italian nobleman, Vivaldi, who falls in love...

Eliza by Barry Pain is a collection of short, humorous anecdotes that follow the lives of Eliza and her pompous husband. The stories are set in a smal...

'Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories' is a collection of humorous short stories narrated by a fictional old country man named Uncle Josh. The stories a...

This collection of thirteen short stories offers a unique perspective on the world through the eyes of cats. Each tale, penned by a different author,...

Uncle Remus & Friends is a collection of 17 stories by Joel Chandler Harris, featuring the beloved characters of Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, a...

Strange Gentleman is a play by Charles Dickens. It is a comic burletta in two acts, and was Dickens's first play. The play is set in a village inn cal...

Klok van Meester Humphrey is a collection of short stories written by Charles Dickens. These stories were originally published in the weekly magazine,...

Clara Vaughan is a young woman determined to solve the mystery of her father's murder, a crime that occurred when she was just a child. Years later,...

''Mis' Smith'' is a collection of humorous short stories by Albert Bigelow Paine, each centering around the titular character, a wise, witty, and misc...

This stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale follows Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in the whimsical and bizarre wor...

Schetsen van Boz is een verzameling korte verhalen van Charles Dickens, gepubliceerd in 1836. De verhalen spelen zich af in het Londen van de jaren 18...

Set in the early 1900s, 'Postmaster's Daughter' centers around a murder mystery that unfolds within a vibrant town. The narrative is as much about the...