Sheridan: 654 books

The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777. The play is still popular and regularly performed today. It is a comedy of manners about "the deceptive nature of appearances, the fickleness of reputation, [and] the often disreputable guises behind which goodness and honesty can conceal itself."

The letter from the rich cousin came at a low point in the Marston family's finances. The man was as ill-bred and pushing as ever: utterly the model of a noxious relation -- but he was rich, and the Marstons were all but destitute. The family could hardly refuse him. But they would come to rue that...

There was a little of that sheet-lightning early in the evening, which betokens sultry weather. The clouds, column after column, came up sullenly over the Dublin mountains, rolling themselves from one horizon to the other into one black dome of vapour, their slow but steady motion contrasting with...

Mr. Marston's fortune, never very large, had been shattered by early dissipation. Naturally of a proud and somewhat exacting temper, he actively felt the mortifying consequences of his poverty. The want of what he felt ought to have been his position and influence in the county in which he resided,...

As I looked through the chaise-windows, every moment presented some group, or outline, or homely object, for years forgotten; and now, with a strange surprise how vividly remembered and how affectionately greeted! We drove by the small old house at the left, with its double gable and pretty grass...

Lady Rochdale resided in a handsome mansion at the north side of Dublin, and Captain Barton’s lodgings, as we have already said, were situated at the south. The distance intervening was considerable, and it was Captain Barton’s habit generally to walk home without an attendant, as often as he...

[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA] X-ray technician Damian Hudgins meets Ross MacDuff when Ross goes to the ER. A serious romance ensues. But their idyll is threatened when Ross's widowed, homophobic father, retired in Arizona, has a stroke. Ross is required to fly out and...

[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA] When the Adonis Dating Service matches up Carter and Wolf, love blossoms. The two are marvelously compatible, and everything is going along great…except for one problem, but its a big one. Wolf owns a dog, and Carter is petrified of dogs....

       On one side Sir Thomas Clifford, at a table, with wine before him; on the other, Master Wilford, Gaylove, Holdwell, and Simpson, likewise taking wine.        Wilf.  Your wine, sirs! your wine!  You do not justice to mine host...

On this case Doctor Hesselius has inscribed nothing more than the words, "Harman's Report," and a simple reference to his own extraordinary Essay on "The Interior Sense, and the Conditions of the Opening thereof." The reference is to Vol. I., Section 317, Note ZA. The note to which...

Isryk is getting married, but to whom? Camari is going on another quest, this time alone, with only the help of two quinas. She is traveling west to invite people to Isryk's wedding. On her journey she meets many people. Some are friends and some are villains. She meets a crooked knight named Cludull...

[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA] When Slade, whose last life partner died in a surfing accident, turns to the Adonis Dating Service to be matched with a lover, he finds himself paired with Tanner, a gay virgin who was het-married until his recent self-realization that hes...

Una mujer rota… Un hombre que necesita ayuda… Solo el amor puede reparar un corazón destrozado… Crystal ha aprendido hace mucho tiempo que el amor solo provoca dolor. Para ella es mejor no sentir nada a que le hagan daño otra vez. Mantiene su corazón a salvo detrás de una dura fachada, y...

There are other smaller streets and by-lanes, some dark with a monastic stillness, others thinly built, with little gardens and old plum and pear trees peeping over grass-grown walls, and here and there you light upon a fragment of that ancient town wall from which, in the great troubles which have...