Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)

Widow and three orphan children in small California town make a go of life.

Includes criticism by T.S. Eliot of Euripides, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Ford, Philip Massinger, Dante, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, William Blake, Algernon Swinburne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lancelot Andrewes, John Bramhall, Blaise Pascal and the Pensees, Charles Baudelaire, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Francis Herbert Bradley, Marie Lloyd, Wilkie Collins, Charles...

The story of a young white South African police lieutenant, idolized in his Afrikaner community, who violates one of the strictest laws of that country governing the relationship between white and black. It is a portrayal of the desperate struggle within himself of a conscience-stricken man, a story told with almost unbearable suspense and bringing to life, in its unfolding, a whole family of unforgettable characters: Pieter the young police lieutenant...

When a family of English aristocrats are marooned on a tropical isle, it soon becomes clear that only one of them is resourceful enough to ensure their survival, their butler, Crichton.

The author, a successful playwright, recounts his lifelong involvement in the theater.

Depicts the career of a gentle schoolteacher at an English public school. Arthur Chipping ("Mr. Chips") is a middle-aged bachelor who falls in love with and marries a young woman whom he has met on a mountaineering vacation. They live happily at Brookfield School until her death, only a few years later. Mr. Chips devotes the rest of his life to educating many generations of boys.

An account of Shakespeare's life and times based on contemporary documents, none dated later than 1635.

Chaplan recalls "his boyhood; the early, casual days of the movies; how he evolved his style, his costumes, his plots, his sudden dazzling success; how he chose his leading ladies; his encounters with great stars and world figures, from Mary Pickford to Gandhi to Bernard Shaw to FDR; his emotional involvements and his four marriages . . . and the political accusations that made him decide to leave the United States."

This series of profiles of Americans who took courageous stands at crucial moments in public life includes John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, George Norris, Robert A Taft and others.