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The prince and the pauper

2000
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

Great expectations

2001
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentlman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.

Great horror stories

tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft, and others
2008

The cherry orchard

1991
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.

Selected poems

1993
A selection of thirty-one poems by nineteenth-century Romantic poet Lord Byron, presented in rough chronological order of composition.

The Oresteia trilogy

1996
Presents Greek tragedian Aeschylus's House of Atreus trilogy: "Agamemnon," in which Clytemnestra murders her war hero husband for sacrificing their daughter; "The Libation-Bearers," in which Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's son, Orestes, kills his mother to avenge his father; and "The Furies (Eumenides)," in which Orestes is chased by his mother's divine avengers.

Monday or Tuesday

eight stories
1997
A collection of eight short stories by twentieth-century English author Virginia Woolf.

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