[PDF] They Stoop To Conquer eBook

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Poetry
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"She Stoops to Conquer" is a comedy play written by the Anglo-Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith. It was first performed in London in 1773. The play is a classic of English literature and is known for its humor, wit, and exploration of social class distinctions. The plot revolves around the attempts of two young men, Marlow and Hastings, to court the wealthy Miss Kate Hardcastle and her cousin Constance Neville. Mistaken identities, misunderstandings, and comedic situations ensue when Marlow mistakes the Hardcastle home for an inn and behaves differently towards Kate than he does towards ladies of his own class. The title, "She Stoops to Conquer," refers to the central plot point where Kate pretends to be a barmaid to win over Marlow, who is shy and awkward around upper-class women but more confident with women of lower social status.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465613315

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MRS. HARDCASTLE. I vow, Mr. Hardcastle, you're very particular. Is there a creature in the whole country but ourselves, that does not take a trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little? There's the two Miss Hoggs, and our neighbour Mrs. Grigsby, go to take a month's polishing every winter. HARDCASTLE. Ay, and bring back vanity and affectation to last them the whole year. I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home! In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket. MRS. HARDCASTLE. Ay, your times were fine times indeed; you have been telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company. Our best visitors are old Mrs. Oddfish, the curate's wife, and little Cripplegate, the lame dancing-master; and all our entertainment your old stories of Prince Eugene and the Duke of Marlborough. I hate such old-fashioned trumpery. HARDCASTLE. And I love it. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand), you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife. MRS. HARDCASTLE. Lord, Mr. Hardcastle, you're for ever at your Dorothys and your old wifes. You may be a Darby, but I'll be no Joan, I promise you. I'm not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year. Add twenty to twenty, and make money of that.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982199121

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The story of a man who buys his life in a moment of fear set in wartime occupied France.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2008-11-05
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ISBN : 1427083363

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Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer was first performed in London in 1773. It is both a good-humored comedy and a satire on social manners. A country gentleman, Mr. Hardcastle, plans to have his daughter Kate marry to Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy aristocrat. Marlow is nervous amongst women of his own class but feels easy amongst serving girls. When they meet, Kate realizes she will have to act as a common girl to marry Marlow and thus poses as a barmaid.

Author : Ndidi Chiazor-Enenmor
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2020-06-12
Category :
ISBN : 9789789809004

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In If they Tell the Story, Azuka fights for her soul, in a society that raised her to find her worth in a marriage and motherhood. In this deeply moving story, she loses everything and as she is about to lose herself to it all, she finds herself again, in the strangest of ways. Set partly in rural Eastern Nigeria and urban Lagos, the story shows how traditions hardly change even in cities, how despite the evolution of roles in the society, women are still expected to stoop to conquer. When they choose not to be a stoop again, they have to pay the price - estrangement, emotional blackmail, physical abuse, and more.This is a story of how shackling deep-seated beliefs are passed down, from one generation to another. Azuka soon learns that the job of unshackling oneself brings pain, attracts attention, yet, it has to be done. It is the story of a woman who dares to question beliefs and the price she pays for daring.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8027303583

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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.