Stage Door imprint: 22 books
Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
by Booth Tarkington
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Booth Tarkington was born on July 29, 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, Penrod, Penrod And Sam all classics....
A Family Man
"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Ernest Henley is most noted for his poetry of which he wrote several volumes with the outstanding contribution being the poem ‘Invictus’. His life was overshadowed by a great deal of ill health and although he died at the young age of 53 he contributed much to Victorian literature. His partner...
The Daughter-In-Law
"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values....
Eros & Psyche
"When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Robert Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent on the 23rd of October 1844. He went to study medicine intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research. However,...
Prometheus The Firegiver
"My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Robert Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent on the 23rd of October 1844. He went to study medicine intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research. However,...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in late April 1565 and baptised there on 26th April. He was one of eight children. Little is known about his life but what is evident is the enormous contribution he has made to world literature. His writing was progressive, magnificent in scope and breathtaking...
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