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A woman must choose between her dutiful husband and a lover from her past life. In The Lady from the Sea, byHenrik Ibsen, a wife struggling in her mundane marriage is looking for a change of pace. When an opportunity arises, her family's fate is thrust into her hands.

A middle-aged architect struggles to maintain his title and prestige. The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, highlights the dangers of ambition coupled with insecurity. A successful man attempts to prolong his career by staggering the development of others. A fear of irrelevancy leads him down a dark and irreversible path.

A small town is scandalized after a medical officer exposes its polluted water supply. An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen, examines the consequences of one man's unwavering commitment to the truth. The story is a commentary on Ibsen's own work, which was heavily criticized for its realistic approach.

A woman's family is broken after an old secret comes to light. A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, examines the true sacrifice of marriage. When her home life is threatened, a wife must make a drastic decision. Published in 1879, this is one of Ibsen's most popular and controversial plays.

An overly ambitious woman interferes in her husband's scholastic career. In Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, a manipulative wife is eager to improve her family's social and economic status. She attempts to sabotage her husband's professional rival to secure their financial future. One selfish act leads to a fatal result.

Following the death of her husband, a free black man, Mag leaves her young daughter Frado in the care of the Bellmont family. After several days, having realized that Frado has been abandoned, they put the girl to work as an indentured servant. Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is a novel by Harriet E. Wilson.

Two boys bored of provincial life ask storyteller Sam Lawson to spin them some yarns. In "The Ghost in the Mill," Cap'n Eb Sawin gets stuck in a heavy snowstorm. In desperate need of shelter, he heads for the nearby mill to spend a strange night with old Cack. Oldtown Fireside Stories is a children's story collection by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A blind woman lives with her young son and her elderly father on profitable land they no longer own. A desperate man on his deathbed confesses his sins to a priest. In The Blind Mother and The Last Confession, a stunning pair of novellas, famed British author Hall Caine explores spirituality, guilt, fate, and cruelty to illuminate not only humanity's place in nature, but the complex psychologies that make whole worlds within us.

After years of traveling the world's oceans, Captain Davy Quiggin, known to all as Capt'n Davy, has come home to the Isle of Man to marry his sweetheart, Ellen Kinvig. After years of waiting, and a wedding to mark the occasion of Davy's return, the couple parts ways after only ten days of matrimony. Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon, a romantic comedy set within the beautiful, wild landscape of the Isle of Man, is a novella that measures the distance between love and marriage, as well as questions the societal institutions that too often drive us apart.

A collection of brief but impactful stories from revered French writer Gustave Flaubert. Three Short Works features several notable titles such as "The Dance of Death," "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller" and "A Simple Soul." Each one delivers a striking tale with vibrant characters and a bold conclusion.

A Victorian gentleman arrives late to a party and reveals he used a machine of his own invention to travel time and has returned from a journey that took him 100,000 years into the future and beyond to the fading of the sun. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells endures as a work of unprecedented imaginative power.

The year is 1960. The world has come under the total control of the United States and Great Britain. Technological, social, and scientific advancements have reshaped human life forever. Amid so much change, two young women attending a prestigious boarding school fall in love. An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future is a novel by Gregory Casparian.

Orphaned as youngsters, Alan and Jane are sent to live with the wicked Uncle Barnaby. Knowing the children stand to inherit a large fortune, Barnaby conspires to get them out of his way. Sent to sea, Alan and Jane survive a terrible shipwreck and are rescued by the kind Contrary Mary. Babes in Toyland is a libretto by Glen MacDonough.

A group of starving artists navigate a harsh winter, fall in love and face impending loss. La bohème, by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, is a four-act opera set in nineteenth-century Paris. It centers a young band of bohemians whose unstable lifestyle is marked by poverty, illness and inevitable heartache.

Back in Paris, Casanova has found success as a spy and diplomat for France. On a mission for the treasury, he travels to Holland to sell government bonds, building a massive fortune and founding a garment factory with his earnings. As wasteful spending and sexual improprieties increase, Casanova finds himself on the wrong side of the law once more.

Having made a daring escape from prison in Venice, Casanova makes his way to Paris. There, he reconnects with old friends, witnesses the execution of attempted assassin Robert-François Damiens, and uses his cunning to ingratiate himself with the local elite. Desperate for money, he accepts a mission from the French Foreign Minister to spy on the commune of Dunkirk.

Juggling multiple affairs alongside a lucrative, exhausting gambling career, Giacomo Casanova is blindsided by a terrible betrayal. As he attempts to get his life back on track, a man presents him with a promising business opportunity. As the two grow close, Casanova lets his guard down, revealing his secrets to Manucci, who turns out to be a spy for the state.

Arrested for crimes against religion, Casanova is sentenced to five years imprisonment in the infamous prison of the Doge of Venice. Held in solitary confinement, he suffers in darkness and silence, through unbearable heat and an infestation of fleas, longing for nothing more than freedom. With the help of a fellow prisoner, and after months of planning, Casanova makes his escape.

Emboldened by his success as a professional gambler, Casanova begins to think he could remain in Venice for good. He divides his time between frequenting the city's casinos and meeting with a beautiful nun, a woman whose chastity soon gives way to pure, unadulterated desire. As this affair heats up, Casanova draws even more attention to himself from local authorities.

After years of restless wandering, after countless failures, arrests, and rejections, Casanova finds a woman worth settling down for. Determined to turn his life around for Henriette, Casanova attempts to put the past behind him. Soon, however, Henriette sees the Venetian libertine for who he really is, and Casanova is forced to go on the road once more.

After two years in Paris, a city teeming with life, Casanova finally wears out his welcome with local authorities. He makes his way to Vienna, a city of immense wealth and stuffy morals, unsuited to such a free-spirited man. As his reputation in Austria grows, he is compelled to return to Venice, where he makes and loses fortunes as a gambler.

As his brief-yet-heated love affair with Madame F., a beautiful noblewoman, comes to an end, Casanova leaves his military life in Corfu behind him. Returning to Venice, he attempts to live as a professional gambler. After losing most of his money, he turns to music, pursuing a career as a violinist by day while partying with friends by night.

Casanova is forced to flee Venice under threat of imprisonment, leaving behind his closest friends and ending his career as an aide to a powerful senator. He makes his way to Parma, where he meets the love of his life, a Frenchwoman named Henriette, whose beauty and wit compel him to remain loyal-for a time.

Still a young man, though one already familiar with the excesses of life, Casanova attempts to enter the seminary to devote himself to God. Despite his best efforts, he finds it hard to resist the pleasures of the flesh for long. Eventually, he manages to secure a position with a prominent Bishop, but soon finds himself in trouble with the law.

Following the disgraceful conclusion of his career in the church, Casanova looks to the military as a way of redeeming himself. Joining a Venetian regiment at Corfu, he soon finds the life of duty to be a boring one and spends his time gambling instead. Abandoning his military service, he catches the eye of Madame F., a beautiful noblewoman of Corfu.

"The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, / As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on." In The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems, Georgia Douglas Johnson reflects on the experience of the African American woman of the early twentieth century. Celebrated for her lyrical brilliance, Johnson is a remarkable poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

In the Republic of Venice, a boy is born who will achieve both fame and infamy, whose life will be a story of fortune and misfortune alike. In the early 18th century, Venice is the capital of European pleasure-seekers, a city known for its limitless offerings to gamblers, revelers, and criminals. For Giacomo Casanova, this environment proves both enticing and formative.

The romance between a dancer and a young royal is thwarted due to classism and politics. The Rajah of Chutneypore, by George Dance and Frank Desprez, was a live comedy first performed in 1891. It centers several ambitious characters eager to subvert tradition to achieve their personal and professional goals.

A young boy is swept away by the North Wind and becomes her new traveling companion. At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald is a fantasy novel originally published in 1871. The story centers a joyous child who discovers the shocking duality of life, death and God.

Two spoiled girls encounter a wise woman who uses magic to change their selfish ways. A Double Story, by George MacDonald, is not a traditional fairy tale. Originally published in 1875, the story presents a moral dilemma of young girls who experience the same lifechanging event but with different results.