Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception.
Silas Marner [en] (1861) 
George Eliot
Accused of a crime he didn't commit and unjustly forced from his home town, Silas lives a reclusive and godless life, finding love and companionship only in material objects. It will take the theft of his gold and the discovery of an abandoned infant to remind him of the importance of human...
Genre: Drama
Man And Superman [en] (1903)
George Bernard Shaw
Although Man and Superman can be performed as a light comedy of manners Shaw intended the drama to be something much deeper, as suggested by the title. This title comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical ideas about the "Übermensch" ("Superman"). The plot centers on John Tanner, author...
Caesar and Cleopatra [en] (1898)
George Bernard Shaw
Set in Egypt, Caesar and Cleopatra, is a drama in which the 50-year-old Roman general meets the childish young Queen and exerts a fatherly influence on her.
The Beautiful and Damned [en] (1922)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aeshete...
Genres: Drama, Family Life
Moll Flanders [en] (1722)
Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is...