Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Kornél Esti
Eighteen stories about Kornél Esti, the narrator's double, a Budapest dandy, traveller and trickster whose escapades and confessions light up the Europe between the wars.
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.
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.
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.
I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Athens's rulers, four confused young lovers, a troupe of amateur actors rehearsing a tragedy, and a wood full of fairies collide over one summer night in the most performed comedy in English.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Ned Henry, an Oxford time traveller suffering from time-lag after too many jumps hunting a Victorian vase called the bishop's bird stump, is sent to recover in 1888, in a rowing boat on the Thames.
Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton's hit web comic collected: short historical and literary gags that send up the Brontës, Napoleon and Canadian prime ministers with equal affection.