Books like The Bonds of Interest
A play in the commedia dell'arte style: two penniless adventurers, the clever Crispín and his master Leandro, arrive in a rich city and talk their way into credit, society and a fortune.
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Pygmalion
A play: Professor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics, bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can pass Eliza Doolittle, a Covent Garden flower girl, off as a duchess within months.
Arms and the Man
A play: in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a Swiss mercenary fleeing the rout climbs into the bedroom of Raina, a romantic young Bulgarian engaged to the hero of the hour.
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Felix Krull, the handsome son of a bankrupt Rhineland champagne maker, sets out to make his way through Paris hotels and European society on charm, mimicry and imposture.
The Great Galeoto
A play: when a wealthy Madrid gentleman takes his late friend's son into his home, the town's idle talk about the young man and his patron's wife begins to make the scandal it imagines.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack calls himself Ernest in town and Algernon visits an invented invalid friend called Bunbury in the country, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily, who both insist on marrying a man named Ernest, collapses into comic confusion.
Henry IV
A play: twenty years after a fall from his horse at a costume pageant, a wealthy Italian still believes he is the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and his old circle arrives with a doctor to try to cure him.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A play: a theatre company rehearsing a Pirandello comedy is interrupted by six strangers, a family of characters abandoned by their author, who demand that their unfinished drama be staged.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
A madman with a gift for impersonation talks his way into a Milan police headquarters and, posing as a judge, reopens the case of an anarchist who fell from a fourth-floor window during questioning.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
The Lion and the Jewel
In the Yoruba village of Ilujinle, the schoolteacher Lakunle and Baroka, the old chief, both want to marry Sidi, the village beauty, whose photograph has just appeared in a magazine.
Dead Souls
A swindler travels through provincial Russia buying up the ownership papers of dead serfs, and the scheme exposes the absurdity and corruption of the entire system.
Noli Me Tángere
Crisostomo Ibarra comes home to Manila after seven years studying in Europe to find that his father has died in prison, and that the friars of his town are set against him.