The complete online text of A Simpleton by Charles Reade.

By the time Charles Reade had reached the age of forty, he had written only two of his fourteen novels, Peg Woffington (1853) and Christie Johnstone (1853); but he had already written at least fifteen of his forty plays, and he continued to write, transl...

George Bernard Shaw's "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles," written in 1934 when the great man was in his late seventies, is a thorough hodgepodge. But so is the Washington Stage Guild's production of the rarely done play, and that makes for one...

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God preserve us from the British upper classes! They are the reason I left England. I decided that I couldn’t listen to their whining sense of entitlement for one second longer, and thus fled to New York, where I promptly discovered that everyone worships the...