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Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen’s first novels, though it was not published until after her death, and contains some of her most biting satire. Catherine Morland, the novel’s naive and provincial heroine, has formed her idea of the world from Gothic novels, full of gloomy Italian castles, long-kept secrets, and dastardly villains. However, when she travels to the city of Bath and encounters a wider society, she will discover that all her reading has ill-prepared her for the real world.

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling's delightful collection of imaginative tales about natural history has captivated children and adults alike since its publication in 1902. Here stories are presented in dramatic format by members of The Online Stage. Stories include:"How the Whale Got His Throat", "How the Camel Got His Hump", "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin", "How the Leopard Got His Spots", "The Elephant's Child", "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo", and more.

The Importance of Being Earnest is Wilde's most famous and oft-produced play. First performed in 1895, and subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People", it shows Wilde at his satirical and scathingly witty best. It follows the misadventures of Algy and Jack as they attempt to woo and wed Cecily and Gwendolen under the assumed name "Ernest", much to the disapproval of the aristocratic Lady Bracknell.

Emma Parker has it all. A great job, a super cute apartment in the city (more like a third-floor studio), a popular blog (is 738 subscribers popular?), and two best friends she wouldn’t trade for the world. Love? Okay, maybe she didn’t have it all, but what's the rush? At the tender age of 23 (almost 24), Emma knows she has plenty of time to find the perfect guy. That is, until her two best friends enter the dating scene and fall in love. After a night of one too many appletinis, a semi-meltdown, and a Lose My Virginity Challenge post, Emma’s little blog goes viral.

In this coming-of-age story, Keely Beck, a teen from Tennessee, loses her best friend in an unexpected accident, and she finds herself alone in a room full of people. In trying to find herself again and regain parts of her memory, she comes across a group of friends who steers her down a negative path. Dealing with the pain of her friend's death, her parent's divorce, and guilt about events she can't recall, Keely turns to self-harm in more ways than one.

This play forms part of a tetralogy which focuses on one of Wedekind's obsessive themes: the destructive interplay between primal sexual urges and social convention. Each play revolves around a powerful young female character, who has the power to control and captivate men, but who in turn is destroyed by the exercise of that power. In Castle Wetterstein, that role is represented by Effie, the young daughter of a bourgeois widow, who is being courted by the man who killed her late husband in a duel.