British & Irish
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Lynne Truss [Truss, Lynne]

The Married Man JIM is an attractive, charming and slightly dandy-ish American who has been living in London for twelve years with his New Yorker wife Elaine. He is a ...
( Category: British & Irish October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Oscar Wilde

And after the second year was over the Soul came down to the shore of the sea, and called to the young Fisherman, and he rose out of the deep ...
( Category: Short Stories October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde [Merlin Holland ]

SALOMÉ: Give me the head of Jokanaan. HERODIAS: Well said, my daughter! As for you, you are ridiculous with your peacocks. HEROD: Be silent! You cry out always; you cry ...
( Category: European October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Stoppard, Tom [Stoppard, Tom]

MADDIE: Yes. WITHENSHAW: Well we seem to be a full complement except for Mr. French. Has anybody heard whether he’s coming? MRS. EBURY: I hope to God not. WITHENSHAW: Mr. ...
( Category: British & Irish September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1972-09-14 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO The Bedroom is blacked out, but music still comes from it—presumably the next track on the album.* Only a minute or two have passed. BONES appears from the ...
( Category: Playwriting September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1975-09-05 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO THE LIBRARY Apart from the bookcases, etc. the Library’s furniture includes CECILY’s desk, which is perhaps more like a counter forming three sides of a square. CECILY: To ...
( Category: Playwriting September 6,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-23 | Author:Rashid Razaq & Hassan Blasim [Razaq, Rashid]

CARLOS: What is funny? LYDIA: You. CARLOS: Why? What I say? LYDIA: Oh. Nothing. It’s my birthday today. CARLOS: Happy Birthday! LYDIA: I’m fifty-s(ix.)…how old are y(ou.)…no. Don’t. It’s refreshing ...
( Category: Theater September 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-05 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO Blackout and ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ by U2. Smash cut to Cambridge. Summer 1987. Garden and interior as before. Night, the interior in near-darkness. ...
( Category: Portraits September 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-05 | Author:Luigi Pirandello & Tom Stoppard

ACT THREE The throne room is dark. The canvasses of the two paintings have been removed, and in their place, inside the frames, are Frida, dressed as “Countess of Tuscany,” ...
( Category: British & Irish September 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)]

Violet. [Brightly.] You're very gay this afternoon, Arthur. One doesn't often hear you whistle. Arthur. D'you think it's unbecoming to my years or to my dignity? Violet. Shall I give ...
( Category: Satire March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

* * * II.--GHENT--BRUGES. GHENT. (1840.) The Beguine College or Village is one of the most extraordinary sights that all Europe can show. On the confines of the town of ...
( Category: British & Irish March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

CHAPTER II . OTTILIA IN PARTICULAR. Some kind critic who peruses these writings will, doubtless, have the goodness to point out that the simile of the Mediterranean heath is applied ...
( Category: British & Irish March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

* Five minutes later Mr. Quhayne was urging his taxidriver to exceed the speed-limit in the direction of Tottenham. Chapter 3 - A Bird's-Eye View of the Situation * Clarence ...
( Category: Humorous March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-21 | Author:Pratchett, Terry [Terry, Pratchett,]

‘Does he?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘They’re runnin’ about all over the place, I know that,’ said Ridcully. ‘Yes, Mister Nutt and Mister Likely are preparing a little something extra for the ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

The next day there was a piece in the Times about the mysterious disappearance of the fabulous ‘Jewels’, which made Glenda smile. They just haven’t read their fairy stories, she ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )