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One of Shakespeare's most popular works, this tragic story depicts the doomed romance of the two "star-cross'd lovers" Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Secretly wed to escape the fury of their feuding families, Romeo and Juliet attempt to enjoy and also conceal their love; however, two hot-headed murders, Romeo's banishment, and a final, ironic miscommunication leaves the pair dead in each others' arms...

King Antiochus presents Pericles with a riddle to solve in order to win the hand of Princess Marina. The consequence of failing to solve the riddle and present the solution would be his death. However, revealing the answer requires his revealing the incestuous relationship between the king and his daughter. Thus Pericles flees Antioch and encounters many adventures, normal and paranormal...

Jealousy and ambition drive Richard to scheme to take his brother’s throne at any cost, including murdering anyone who stands in his way. He alienates both the common people and the nobility and in the end they unite against him...

King Richard II is the first play in Shakespeare’s second tetralogy of historical dramas. Richard II’s neglect of the common people, extravagant spending habits, and choice of advisors ultimately brings about his downfall...

"The Arabian Nights" is a collection of ancient fairy tales from Asia, Arabia, and Persia. Andrew Lang shortened the stories somewhat and left out obscure references and what he determined to be "very dull and stupid" additions to the stories made by various translators over time. The stories are told by Sheherezade to the brutal Sultan Schahriar, who, every evening, married a new wife and had her strangled the next morning. Sheherezade hopes to deliver the people from this terror by changing the Sultan's heart through her stories. "The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor" and "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" are just two of the stories she tells the sultan...

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Scottish economist Adam Smith's groundbreaking eighteenth-century book laid the foundation for modern economic theory. He discusses the relationship between government and economic activity and the consequences of government interference in matters of commercial exchange, such as protectionism, tariffs, taxation, labour, productivity, wages, and price. Smith gives a history of economic development in Europe and addresses mercantilism and colonialism in the context of the American revolution, which was concurrent with the writing of Wealth of Nations...

The story of how loving someone makes us real features a little boy's beloved brown velveteen rabbit, who is teased by the fancier toys in the nursery. When the boy becomes seriously ill with scarlet fever, the rabbit remains by his side, his constant companion and source of reassurance. After the illness passes, everything that may have been contaminated by the illness is taken outdoors to be burned. But the Fairy of Nursery Magic intervenes and saves the velveteen rabbit from the fire and makes him real...

William Makepeace Thackeray's Victorian masterpiece, Vanity Fair, satirizes nineteenth century upper-middle class society in London. Becky Sharp, the main character, is looked down upon due to her lack of money and breeding. As a result, she uses all her charm and powers of manipulation to elevate her status and escape her destiny as a governess...

Written by Sir Thomas More, Utopia ("no place") is one of the most influential works of Western philosophy. The speculative essay focuses on a traveler, Raphael Hythloday, who searches for the best possible existing form of government and discovers it on an island named Utopia. In Utopia, wealth, nobility, and currency do not exist, property is held communally, and goods are distributed equally. More?s concept of an ideal society influenced later philosophers, notably Karl Marx, and its antithesis, dystopia, was explored by authors such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell...

Harriet Beecher Stowe, the daughter of a strict Calvinist preacher, wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin after learning about life in the South and the cruelty of slavery. The novel was first published in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era. Uncle Tom is a devout slave sold to the sadistic Simon Legree, who kills Tom while attempting to beat information out of him about the whereabouts of two women slaves. ..

Made famous by the silver screen performance of Judy Garland in dazzling ruby slippers, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz relays the adventure of young Dorothy who, lifted by a tornado into a magical land, must visit a mysterious Wizard to return home to Kansas...

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Written by Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling in 1906, Puck of Pook's Hill is a loosely linked collection of stories for children about various events in British history. Puck meets the main characters, Dan and Una, in a meadow near their home and arranges for a variety of historical figures to tell them stories about important historical events. ..

Lewis Carroll was a well-known author, mathematician, and logician. He is most famous for his children's books Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, however, he also published many poems and mathematical treatises. Phantasmagoria and Other Poems includes "Fame's Penny-Trumpet" and "Four Riddles."..