Presents the unexpurgated text of the 1928 edition of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," in which Constance Chatterley, trapped in a loveless marriage, finds herself experiencing true love for the first time after meeting the new gamekeeper at her husband's estate.
Chekhov's last play, written in 1904, tells the story of an aristocratic Russian family that struggles to maintain their status in a changing world as they are faced with the prospect of selling the family estate to a land developer in order to pay off their debts.
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni has only his pride and good looks. He makes a simple-sounding wager with the devil who offers him unlimited wealth as long as Giovanni does not bathe or change his clothes for over three years. Giovanni sacrifices his beauty and his pride while struggling desperately to win the wager and save his soul.
Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.
A serving girl, disappointed that her childhood friend is becoming a copy of his proud and unforgiving father, the Duke, helps him to see that the unicorn sought by the Duke's hunting party is too precious to kill.
When sixteen-year-old Lady Victoria is discovered to have magic powers, she is banished to a reform school where she falls in with rebellious students who have pledged to protect England from conquest. Using her full powers, Victoria and the others are led into a dangerous and challenging world.
