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The Duchess of Padua' is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a five-act sensational tragedy set in Padua and written in a blank verse. It was composed for the female actor Mary Anderson in mid-1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down, it was deserted until its first-ever performance at the Broadway Theater in New York under the title 'Guido Ferranti' on 26 January 1891, where it ran for a long time. It has been seldom performed or studied. The Duchess of Padua elucidates the tale of a young fellow named Guido who was left in the charge of a man he calls his uncle as a child. Guido gets a notice to meet a man in Padua concerning something concerning his parentage. When he shows up in Padua he is persuaded by a man named, Moranzone, to forsake his only friend, Ascanio, to destine himself to vindicate his father's murder committed by Simone Gesso, the Duke of Padua. Over the play, Guido observes he has become hopelessly enamored with Beatrice, the title character, and trusts his affection for her, an adoration which she returns. At this point, Guido has had a shift in perspective and chooses not to kill the Duke of Padua, and on second thought expects to stab his father's knife at the Duke's bedside to tell the Duke that his life might have been taken if Guido had needed to kill him. While heading to the bed-chamber, Guido comes across Beatrice, who herself killed the Duke so she may accompany Guido. Guido is dismayed at the transgression committed for his sake and leaves Beatrice, assuring that their affection has been spoilt. She runs away and when she comes across certain gatekeepers, she asserts that Guido killed the Duke. Wilde himself depicted the play to Anderson: "I have no hesitation in saying that it is the masterpiece of all my literary work, the chef-d'oeuvre of my youth." Mary Anderson, in any case, was less energetic: "The play in its present form, I fear, would no more please the public of today than would 'Venus Preserved' or 'Lucretia Borgia'. Neither of us can afford failure now, and your Duchess in my hands would not succeed, as the part does not fit me. My admiration of your ability is as great as ever."William Winter reviewed the first production in The New York Tribune on 27 January 1891: "The new play is deftly developed in five short demonstrations and is written in a type of blank verse that is generally resonant, frequently persuasive, and at times freighted with whimsical figures of uncommon magnificence. It is less a tragedy but a melodrama...the radical deformity of the work is untrustworthiness. Nobody in it is natural." The Duchess of Padua is not regarded as one of Wilde's major works, and has rarely been performed or discussed. Leonée Ormond suggests several reasons for this: it is "quite unlike the plays for which Wilde is most famous, and biographers and critics have been inclined to say that it is unstageable, that it draws too heavily upon Shakespeare, Jacobean tragedy and Shelley's The Cenci ." Robert Shore remarked on the actual play while surveying an intriguing contemporary production:"......his tale of Renaissance realpolitik, revenge, and big love is about as far removed from the sophisticated social ironies of The Importance of Being Earnest as you can get. The dramatist affects the high Jacobean manner but the results are more cold pastiche than hot homage. Shakespearean archetypes stand behind the action - especially Lady Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet - but the smoothness of the verse means Wilde's characters never burn with the knotty tormented passion of their dramatic forebears. It's Victorian melodrama." However, Joseph Pearce is more responsive to Wilde's Shakespearian impact: "Unfortunately, the derivativeness of The Duchess of Padua has devalued it in the eyes of the critics...Yet if The Duchess of Padua is an imitation of Shakespeare, it is a very good imitation."

Wilkie Collins wrote 'The Frozen Deep' as a play in 1856, it was modified by Charles Dickens as a novel. It's story line is based on a failed Arctic expedition of Franklin. Explorers mission was to find the Northwest passage in the Arctic. The two members of the expedition, Richard and Frank love the same woman Clara. Due to his friendly relations with Clara, Richard wishes to marry Clara but Clara loves Frank. When Richard realizes Clara's feelings about Frank, he becomes crazy and wants to harm Frank. Clara believes that she possesses the power of super vision and foresees the same tragedy. Clara has guilt and sickness about all these circumstances. Two sailors Richard Wardour and Frank Aldersely set of on the Arctic voyage on different ships. Two years of turbulent sea voyage Richard and Frank paired together in life threatening circumstances. Richard and Frank came in close contact and struggle hard for their survival. In the background of expedition, the story of the novel revolves around love, revenge and sacrifice and it ends in a melodramatic way.

The Haunted Hotel is a less popular work - a gothic story with fascinating characters, tormented rooms, and outrageous relationships.Without ruining the plot, there is a great deal to making it an exciting read. A secretive marriage, a hated darling, contention between siblings, missing workers, and apparition dreams - a lot of Victorian goodness!Collins makes a considerable lot of compassion toward practically every person in the book. Disdaining any character is difficult. A homicide is committed in the main portion of the book. Our criminal investigator for this situation is the despised sweetheart, accidentally maneuvered into the standard story. As a peruse, you might have proactively arranged your cast into malicious and heavenly, however, one can never be excessively certain.

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about existence in the East End of London in 1902. He composed this direct record by living in the East End (counting the Whitechapel District) for a very long time, some of the time remaining in workhouses or dozing in the city. The circumstances he encountered and expounded on were equivalent to those persevered by an expected 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.

The Life and Death of King Richard III is an authentic play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in around 1592. It portrays the Machiavellian ascent to influence and the ensuing short rule of Richard III of England. The play is gathered among the accounts in the First Folio and is most frequently delegated as such. Incidentally, in any case, as in the quartoedition, it is called a misfortune. Shakespeare's most memorable quadruplicate (additionally containing Henry VI parts 1-3). The play starts with Richard (called "Gloucester" in the text) remaining on "a street", portraying the re-growth to the lofty position of his sibling, King Edward IV of England, the oldest child of the late Richard, Duke of York. It is 1471 to infer the year. Currently, it is the colder time of year of our discontent. This sun of York made this a splendid summer, and every mist that lour'd upon our home in the deep chest of the sea covered it. "Son of York" is a play on the identification of the "blazing sun," which Edward IV embraced, and "son of York" refers to, for example, the child of the Duke of York. Richard is a revolting hunchback who is "rudely stamped," "deformed, unfinished," and can't "strut before a wanton ambling nymph." He answers the misery of his condition with an outsider's: "I am determined to prove a villain/and hate the idle pleasures of these days." Richard plots to have his sibling Clarence, who remains before him in the line of progression, led to the Tower of London over a prediction he paid off a diviner to finagle the dubious King with; that "G of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be", which the ruler deciphers as alluding to George of Clarence (without acknowledging it really alludes to Gloucester). Richard currently plans to charm "the Lady Anne"-Anne Neville, widow of the Lancastrian Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. He says to the crowd: "I'll wed Warwick's most youthful girl." Did I kill her better half and her dad? Unlike Titus Andronicus, the play avoids realistic depictions of actual brutality; only Richard and Clarence are shown being executed in front of an audience, while the rest (the two sovereigns, Hastings and Brackenbury, Gray, Vaughan, Rivers, Anne, Buckingham, and King Edward) are executed off-stage. Notwithstanding the awful idea of the title character and the terrible storyline, Shakespeare implants the activity with comic material, as he does with the vast majority of his misfortunes. A large part of the humour comes from the polarity between how Richard's personality is known and the way he tries to show up. A scene from Richard III, coordinated by Keith Fowler for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival in Williamsburg, is one of the primary Shakespearean exhibitions in America. (Here Richard is wounded with a hog stick by the Earl of Richmond.) Richard himself additionally gives a few dry comments experiencing the same thing, as when he intends to wed Queen Elizabeth's girl: "Murder her siblings, then wed her; uncertain method of gain." Other instances of humour in this play incorporate Clarence's hesitant killers and the Duke of Buckingham's report on his endeavour to convince the Londoners to acknowledge Richard ("... I bid them that did love their country's good cry, God save Richard, England's royal king!" Richard says, "And did they so?" Buckingham: "No, so God help me, they didn't say anything...") Puns, a Shakespearean staple, are particularly well addressed in the scene where Richard attempts to convince Queen Elizabeth to charm her daughter on his behalf.

The concluding part of the Caspak trilogy, 'Out of Times Abyss' written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is most adventurous and mysterious creation. It is most enjoyable science fantasy novel, out of the three books, the sequence was first published in 1918. Mostly, it is a story of expedition of Bradley and his team in the land of dinosaurs. Bradley's encounters with the predator flying Weiroo people and escape, is the most terrific part of the story. Here, Bradley emerges as action hero and rescues a native woman. They fall in love and they defeat the villains. The strength of this story is the society he evolves with the weiroos. Their society, customs and cruelty are fully analysed as Bradley is arrested and must make his escape.

A convincing sci-fi, The 'Time Machine is a direct record of a Time Traveler's excursion into the future. The lever gets pulled and the machine sends him to the year 802,701 when mankind has parted into two unusual races? the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. Here, his machine gets stolen and with the assistance of Weena, an Eloi he is saved from drowning, and the explorer can recover it. Zooming thirty million years further into the future, he discovers that the Earth is slowly dying, where the red sun sits still overhead and the main indication of life is a dark mass with tentacles. He returns to the Victorian time, overpowered, only three hours after he initially left. Credited with inventing the time machine in this novel, the provocative understanding of H. G. Wells keeps on enchanting the readers.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first book. Because of his fame with Sketches by Boz published in 1836, Dickens was asked by the editor "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The novel became Britain's first real event, with unlawful copies. Pickwick is basically a significant novel, but its sincere features showed in comic form. Not that Dickens bounds the book lovers enjoy the sour taste of life with sweet essence of comedy. The valuable morals are exactly those that knitted well with humour. Pickwick Papers reveals the fun of travel, the happiness of good livelihood, kindness, love life and energy of a youth. Dickens realizes these facts by showing them against rather bitter realities.

'Tarzan of the Apes' was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and this was printed in 1914 as a novel. John and Alice Rutherford Clayton are deserted on the west coast of Africa with their infant son John. John's mother dies and his father is killed by Kerchak, the king ape and John is taken in by Kala, his ape mother. She renames him Tarzan and takes care as her son. Later, the son discovers his father's knife and uses it to become King of Apes. As a man, he experiences humans again when an expedition of white men comes into the jungle. Tarzan also makes friends with D'Arnot, a naval officer, who teaches him to act like a normal man and also teaches him how to speak French and later English. This is the story of a man who is nurtured in the African jungle by a tribe of apes.

In 1909, H. Rider Haggard's novel 'The Lady of Blossholme' was published. It was one of the most adventurous and historical novel of the time. The story is of England during the rule of Henry VIII in 1536. It is featuring the revolt, 'Pilgrimage of Grace' broke out during the reign of Henry VIII. It is narrating the event, in which on one hand King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, on the other hand, many clergyman and people of Northern England, rebelling against King Henry VIII.

The book 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy depends on story of novel archives of French assault on Russia in 1812 and the impact of Napoleonic period on Tsarist society through the accounts of pedigreed families in Russia.Tremendous portions of this writing are philosophical discussions instead of account. This exploration paper splendidly follows the characters, from different foundations, as military assaults from grouped establishments laborers and aristocrats, customary people and heroes. As they fight with issues novel to their period and their lifestyle, it portrays speculations and characters transcend their identity. This investigates scholarly gadgets used in the book that are styles of novel that arose in mid-nineteenth century that look like panning, wide shots and close-ups and furthermore explores striking similitudes in 'War and Peace'. This study perceives the reason why novel is everything except an undeniable novel, yet a clever that analyzes events of the new past with the characters of certified people living in the public eye. The contemporary significance of this book in cognizance in feeling, mental strength, and enthusiastic greatness being developed of mankind .

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is divided into three separate parts, according to the subjects: My Last Flappers (The Jelly-Bean, The Camel's Back, May Day, and Porcelain and Pink), Fantasies Flappers (The Jelly-Bean, The Camel's Back, May Day, and Porcelain and Pink), Fantasies (The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Unclassified Masterpieces Big as the Ritz and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Mysterious Masterpieces (The Lees of Happiness, Mr. Icky, and Jemina the Mountain Girl), as well as the novelette May Day and the novella The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.