Richard Sheridan: 57 books
Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales
The Phantom of the Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Turn of the Screw, The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, A Haunted Island, Black Magic, The Beetle, The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental…...
THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics
Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Haunted Island, Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...
HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories
The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Black Magic, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Dracula, The Monk, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, The Beetle…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection of the greatest horror classics, the darkest mysteries and supernatural tales: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer &...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1998
Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for Maria,...
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
by Richard Chizmar, Alex Shvartsman, Kelly A. Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Mysterious and looming, towers and tower-like structures pierce the skies and shadow the lands. Hides the Dark Tower includes over two dozen tales of adventure, danger, magic, and trickery from an international roster of authors. Readers of science fiction, fantasy, horror, grimdark, campfire tales,...
Harvard Classics Volume 18
Modern English Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. All for Love, by John Dryden 2. The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 3. She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith 4. The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
During a brief but brilliant literary career, Irish-born dramatist and statesman Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) wrote cleverly plotted plays that revealed his nimble wit and keen eye for comic situations. Two of them — The School for Scandal and The Rivals — are among the funniest in...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The School for Scandal is a drama written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777. Lady Sneerwell, a rich young widow, and her hireling Snake discuss her various scandal-spreading plots. Snake asks why she is so involved in the affairs of...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
The Rivals is a comedy of manners drama by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts. It was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The play takes place in Bath in the 18th century, a town that was legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance
and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently
performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial
mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and married a much
younger wife in the hope that she...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political and
theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish invasion
seemed imminent and patriotic fervour superseded party divisions and
personal animosities. The Critic satirises the panic of the summer in
the form of the comically...
by Henry James, M. R. James, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Dr Tiffany Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental
comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and
satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration
comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a
qualified success: the suave...