Arcadia Public Library

Humorous play about four mismatched lovers on the French Riviera.

"In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later. Bernard...

"Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19 year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father. A seemingly open and shut case turns complicated, igniting passions and hidden prejudices"--Container.

Noel Coward's sophisticated wit comes shining through in a collection that features six of his greatest plays.

Startling tales of imagination! The screams. The grisly sound effects. The rumbling organ music. Sound in the dark come strange, mysterious, and terrifying in twenty-one episodes of such classic series as Lights Out, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, and many more. Spine-chilling tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Arch Oboler, Robert A. Arthur, David Kogan, and Alonzo Deen Cole dabble in dark realms. Boris Karloff, Maurice Tarplin, Paul McGrath,...

Four classic comedies from Oscar Wilde. Also includes a dramatization of the only novel Oscar Wilde wrote, The Picture of Dorian Gray.