Bronson Tweed Publishing: 165 books

This version of William Shakespeare's famous comedic play A Midsummer Night's Dream has been extensively annotated and formatted for your reader.

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, thought to have been finished around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised...

An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 drama by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous. Ghosts had challenged the hypocrisy of Victorian morality...

Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. It was initially published in a 1609 quarto with the full stylised title: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Never before imprinted....

Timon of Athens is a collaborative drama by William Shakespeare and perhaps Thomas Middleton about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the philosopher of the same name). The central character is a well beloved citizen of Athens who through tremendous generosity spends...

Hospital Sketches (1863) is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the United States Civil War in Georgetown. Tribulaton Periwinkle begins the story by complaining, "I want something...

Riders to the Sea is a drama written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on February 25, 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin by the Irish National Theater Society. A one-act tragedy, the play is set in the Aran Island, Inishmaan, and like all of...

The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act drama written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907.  It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo (on the west coast of Ireland) during the early 1900s....

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. In his prior narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to write a "graver work". Accordingly,...

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, originally produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of Victorian society, particularly...

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...

The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise written by René Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences (French title: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" or "A Dead Man's Dream" is a short tale by American author Ambrose Bierce.  Originally published by The San Francisco Examiner in 1890, it was first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The story, which is set...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, first written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line...