Kipling’s delightful collection of imaginative tales about natural history has captivated children and adults alike since its publication in 1902. Here the stories are presented in dramatic…… Read more “‘Just So Stories’ by Rudyard Kipling”

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and…… Read more “‘The World’s Best Poetry: Volume 4 (Part 2)’ by Various”

The Dream is Joanna Baillie’s gothic, proto-Lynchian meditation on fear, guilt, and the prophetic power of dreams. In the cloistered confines of a Swiss monastery, a small…… Read more “‘The Dream’ by Joanna Baillie”

“This comedy was produced at Drury Lane on December 14, 1702. It is the most accurate of all Farquhar’s productions. The plot, though improbable, is well constructed…… Read more “‘The Twin Rivals’ by George Farquar”

When country girl Polly Milton comes to visit her friend Fanny Shaw, city life isn’t all she had hoped it would be. Thrown in the middle of…… Read more “‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’ by Louisa May Alcott”

“Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlements thrust upward from…… Read more “‘At the Sign of the Greedy Pig’ by Charles S. Brooks”

The girlfriends are coming to visit the chaps at college, but of course they can’t stay unless there is a proper chaperone. So what could be more…… Read more “‘Charley’s Aunt’ by Brandon Thomas”

Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that this is NOT…… Read more “‘The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith’ by Arthur Wing Pinero”

An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at…… Read more “‘The Devil is an Ass’ by Ben Jonson”

Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good.…… Read more “‘The Impostures of Scapin’ by Moliere”