item: #1 of 6 id: 37961 author: Andreyev, Leonid title: He Who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts date: None words: 26389 flesch: 94 summary: [CONSUELO _and_ BEZANO _stand side by side, the jockey scowling_, CONSUELO _laughing and flushing_. Then she stands motionless, looking straight at the dark opening of the door through which_ BEZANO _comes_. keywords: actors; afraid; alfred; andreyev; angelica; angry; arm; auguste; bareback; baron; beautiful; believe; benefit; better; bezano; book; briquet; cane; champagne; child; circus; clown; consuelo; costume; count; countess; crazy; crowd; cry; dance; day; dear; devil; dirty; door; drink; evening; eyes; face; father; feet; fool; francs; friend; gentleman; gesture; girl; glad; glasses; god; good; great; half; hand; happy; hat; head; heart; high; home; honest; idea; jackson; jim; kiss; laughing; laughs; laughter; left; life; like; lion; listen; little; long; look; looking; louis; love; mad; manager; mancini; matter; minute; money; morning; music; need; new; nice; nonsense; old; order; pale; papa; people; performance; place; play; polly; poor; pose; prince; queen; quiet; rest; right; ring; room; roses; sad; silence; sir; slaps; small; smile; society; sorry; stage; step; strange; stupid; sun; tango; thing; thomas; thought; tilly; time; true; voice; way; wife; woman; work; zinida cache: 37961.txt plain text: 37961.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 42665 author: Andreyev, Leonid title: Satan's Diary date: None words: 60788 flesch: 85 summary: But Magnus _knows_. It was a month ago that Thomas Magnus _blew_ me up. keywords: afraid; air; american; andreyev; angry; answer; ashamed; astonished; attention; bad; beat; beating; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beings; best; better; billions; black; blood; body; book; boundless; bowed; brazen; break; breast; breath; bright; brow; business; calm; campagna; cardinal; certain; change; children; church; cigar; city; clear; close; cold; comparisons; confess; consciousness; contempt; conversation; country; course; creature; cursed; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desire; devil; difficult; dim; distance; door; drink; earth; earthly; eminence; entire; eternal; eternity; evening; excitement; existence; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faith; falsehood; fatal; fate; father; fear; feet; fellow; fine; fingers; fire; following; fool; foolish; foot; form; free; friend; funeral; game; garden; gaze; genius; gentleman; glad; glass; god; gold; great; greater; half; hand; happy; hate; hatred; head; heart; heaven; heavy; hell; henry; high; history; home; hope; horror; hour; house; huge; human; humanity; idea; illinois; important; indifference; interesting; iron; joy; kind; king; kiss; large; late; laughter; law; left; leonid; lie; lies; life; lights; like; lips; little; live; living; long; longer; look; looking; love; machine; madonna; magnus; man; manner; maria; marquis; mars; mass; matter; means; mere; merry; mind; miracle; miserable; moment; money; moon; morning; morrow; motionless; movement; necessary; neck; need; new; night; nonsense; nose; number; ocean; odor; old; open; order; orsini; pain; pale; pardon; past; peculiar; people; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; police; poor; possible; power; pure; question; quiet; rabbit; ready; real; reason; red; regard; reply; resemblance; respect; return; revolver; ridiculous; road; rome; room; run; russian; salvation; satan; schooner; scoundrel; sea; senses; set; shaven; short; shoulders; signor; signor magnus; signorina; silence; silent; silly; simple; sir; sleep; slowly; small; smile; soul; sound; spirit; stone; strange; strong; sun; table; tears; teeth; terrible; terror; things; think; thomas; thomas magnus; thought; throat; time; tolstoy; toppi; touch; trembling; true; truth; vain; view; villa; visit; voice; wall; war; way; weary; white; wide; wife; wild; window; wine; wise; wish; woman; wondergood; words; work; world; worse; worthy; yesterday; young; youth cache: 42665.txt plain text: 42665.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 49594 author: Andreyev, Leonid title: The Dark date: None words: 18884 flesch: 90 summary: He had fine dark eyes, although in expression a little too unswerving; and they moved slowly and heavily, as though every movement were a great distance to be traversed. He had splendid white teeth and silky whiskers and soft eyes with girlish lashes. keywords: air; answer; arms; author; bare; bed; better; black; body; brute; calm; cheekbones; coat; cognac; cold; collar; common; comrades; course; dancing; dark; darling; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; dirty; door; drink; drunken; expression; eyes; face; fat; feeling; feet; fine; fingers; fool; girl; glass; god; good; great; hairy; half; hall; hand; hard; head; honour; house; human; innocence; joy; laughter; leave; left; life; light; like; lips; little; liuba; long; look; looking; love; mad; man; men; mind; moment; movement; music; naked; neck; new; officers; old; open; pale; people; picture; pocket; police; prostitute; quiet; reason; red; revolver; room; round; russian; shameful; short; shoulders; silence; silent; sleep; smile; soft; soul; spurs; stories; straight; strange; strong; superintendent; talk; tears; teeth; terrible; thing; thought; time; tolstoi; truth; unknown; voice; wall; want; way; white; wild; woman; words; young cache: 49594.txt plain text: 49594.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 49596 author: Andreyev, Leonid title: The Sorrows of Belgium: A Play in Six Scenes date: None words: 16729 flesch: 96 summary: EMIL GRELIEU What are you shouting, François? FRANÇOIS Is it war? EMIL GRELIEU keywords: belgium; better; blumenfeld; boy; burning; chauffeur; children; clairmont; commander; count; crying; dear; doctor; emil; emil grelieu; eyes; face; father; fire; flowers; fourth; françois; garden; girl; god; good; grelieu; hand; hard; head; henrietta; highness; house; jeanne; lagard; life; listen; little; long; lonua; mamma; maurice; monsieur; mother; near; necessary; night; officer; old; papa; peasant; people; pierre; prussians; ritzau; second; silence; silent; silvina; sky; sleep; son; sound; stein; strange; terrible; time; today; true; voice; von; war; water; way; window; woman; yes; young cache: 49596.txt plain text: 49596.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 49606 author: Andreyev, Leonid title: Anathema: A Tragedy in Seven Scenes date: None words: 29957 flesch: 94 summary: Yes, madam Leizer, I want to see David, David Leizer. But why do you call me David Leizer, when you used to call me simply David before? KHESSIN. keywords: abraham; afraid; anathema; answer; arms; beard; beautiful; beauty; bezkrainy; black; blind; blood; bread; children; city; copeck; crowd; dance; dancing; dark; darkness; david; david leizer; day; dead; death; devil; distance; dog; door; drink; dust; earth; entrances; eyes; face; father; fear; feet; fire; friend; frightened; gates; girl; god; good; great; grey; grinder; guardian; hair; hands; happiness; head; heart; honest; horror; hunger; jew; joy; khessin; large; laughter; left; life; little; long; longer; look; love; madam; man; mankind; master; mercy; moishe; money; mother; music; naum; near; need; nullius; old; open; ordinary; organ; paper; people; poor; purikes; right; road; rocks; room; rosa; sarah; sea; shouting; sick; silence; silent; smiling; soda; sonka; soul; stone; sun; tears; terrible; time; tired; true; truth; voice; wait; wanderer; water; way; weeping; white; woman; words; world cache: 49606.txt plain text: 49606.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 49852 author: Andreyev, Leonid title: The Life of Man: A Play in Five Acts date: None words: 24405 flesch: 93 summary: What ails thee, little wife of mine? And even if it were devils who have brought the things here, it should not prevent you from coming and sitting on my knee, little wife. keywords: act; agony; baby; ball; beautiful; beseech; better; birth; black; blood; boy; bread; bright; candle; care; ceiling; child; children; chin; chuckle; clear; cold; company; corner; cry; curse; curtain; dance; dancers; dark; darkness; darling; day; dead; deal; dear; dearest; death; deep; die; doctor; door; earth; enemies; eyes; face; father; fine; flame; floor; flowers; general; girl; god; good; great; green; grey; guests; hair; hand; head; heart; help; high; home; honour; hour; house; hungry; husband; kind; lady; large; laughter; left; life; light; like; little; long; longer; look; love; man; mansion; matter; milk; mind; moment; money; musicians; nay; need; neighbours; number; old; people; place; poor; prayer; rats; red; rest; rich; room; scene; screams; shadow; silence; sleep; small; son; sort; soul; sound; splendid; stone; strange; strong; sun; supper; sure; table; tall; tears; thee; things; thou; thy; time; tis; trees; tune; turn; voice; walls; water; way; white; wife.~~; wild; windows; women; work; world; yes; young; ~the cache: 49852.txt plain text: 49852.txt