In the Shadow of the Glen

J. M. (John Millington) Synge

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS By J. M. Synge PREFACE In writing THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I ha...

J. M. (John Millington) Synge

A PLAY IN ONE ACT By J. M. Synge INTRODUCTION It must have been on Synge's second visit to the Aran Islands that he had the experience out of which was wrought what many believe to be his gre...

J. M. (John Millington) Synge

A PLAY IN ONE ACT SCENE.--{The last cottage at the head of a long glen in County Wicklow.

J. M. (John Millington) Synge

THE WELL OF THE SAINTS A Comedy in Three Acts By J. M. Synge SCENE Some lonely mountainous district in the east of Ireland one or more centuries ago.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.