Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley’s spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell’s famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficien...
These are a collection of sixteen satiric monologues where Juvenal does his best to poke his finger in the eye of the Roman society of his day for not...
It is a Restoration comedy, a genre of play that was popular in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, characterized by its witty dialogue...
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall by Herbert George Jenkins
"When a Canadian businessman clashes with the British bureaucracy, chaos and hil...
In the charming world of Colin, secrets are woven into the very fabric of society, and behind the veneer of polite society lies a web of hidden desire...
Das 1895 uraufgeführte Lustspiel Leonce und Lena von Georg Büchner setzt sich an Hand der Liebesgeschichte der Königskinder Leonce und Lena sartirisch...
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-centu...
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They ma...
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it...
De 19e eeuwse klassieker Eline Vere speelt in de gegoede kringen van Den Haag. Eline is een jonge, mooie maar labiele vrouw die zich veel van het leve...
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittie...
La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas est une comédie-ballet de Molière (musique de Charpentier et ballets de Beauchamp), commandée par Louis XIV pour le remariag...
Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of...
Lazarillo de Tormes is an anonymous Spanish novel first published in 1554. It is considered the first picaresque novel, and one of the most important...
This book presents humorous sketches of everyday life, playfully satirizing human nature and social conventions. While the stories are often embellish...
“O Clube da Má Língua” satiriza a hipocrisia e a superficialidade da sociedade russa do século XIX. A obra retrata um grupo de indivíduos, liderados...
Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz, weary of the stifling confines of court life, flees to England with the elderly court librarian. Seeking a life o...
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's last completed novel, is a complex and multifaceted exploration of Victorian London society. The story revolves around th...
This novel, set in the mid-19th century, centers around the eccentric characters inhabiting a wealthy, yet seemingly dysfunctional, Victorian househol...
Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the character...
Vanity Fair is a sprawling novel that follows the lives of two young women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, as they navigate the complex and often ruth...
The Roaring Girl is a lively and entertaining Jacobean comedy that follows the adventures of Moll Cutpurse, a notorious cross-dressing figure from 17t...
