Silas Marner. A man finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage -- Lifted veil. Latimer, a sensitive and intellectual man, finds he has clairvoyant powers, and, when he meets Bertha Grant, he refuses to heed the warning visions -- Brother Jacob. Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently...

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All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...

The play deals with the issues of mercy, justice, and truth and their relationship to pride and humility.

Background information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and the text accompany his play about unrequited love and mistaken identity.