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By: August Strindberg (1849-1912) | |
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![]() August Strindberg’s naturalistic one-act drama has only three characters: Julie, a passionate young noblewoman; Jean, her father’s ambitious valet; and Kristin, the cook, who is also Jean’s fiancee. The play is set on Midsummer Eve, when everyone is reveling, and Julie and Jean get a bit too intimate – with tragic results. | |
![]() Creditors is an 1889 tragicomedy by August Strindberg that plumbs the depths of the twisted triangular relationship between Tekla, her husband Adolph, and her ex-husband Gustav. | |
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By: August von Kotzebue (1761-1819) | |
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![]() Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an English audience... | |
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By: August William Derleth (1909-1971) | |
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By: Augusta Groner (1850-1929) | |
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![]() The account of some adventures in the professional experience of a member of the Imperial Austrian Police. (from the text) | |
![]() A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. |
By: Augusta J. Evans (1835-1909) | |
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By: Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) | |
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By: Augustine D. Crake (1836-1890) | |
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By: Augustus Allen Hayes (1837-1892) | |
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By: Austin Dobson (1840-1921) | |
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By: Austin Hall | |
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By: Avis A. Burnham Stanwood | |
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By: Aylward Edward Dingle (1874-) | |
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By: Ayn Rand (1905-1982) | |
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![]() The title 'Anthem' is derived as an anthem to sense of self and self-governing thoughts. Anthem is a story of Equality 7-2521 who is a young man living in some unspecified future time and place. In this future era freedom and individual rights have been eradicated. The starring character of the novel is an inquisitive street cleaner. He lives in a society where people have lost their knowledge of individualism, to the extreme that people do not know words like 'I' or 'mine'. All the people live and work for their livelihood in collective groups, along with the people with power, namely the 'Councils'... |
By: B. (Benjamin) Barker | |
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By: B. M. Bower (1874-1940) | |
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