A message from Mars : A fantastic comedy in three acts by Richard Ganthony
"A Message from Mars: A Fantastic Comedy in Three Acts" by Richard Ganthony is a play first performed in 1899. When self-absorbed Horace Parker chooses an evening of reading over escorting his fiancée to a ball, he falls asleep and encounters a mysterious visitor from Mars. The Messenger arrives with one mission: to cure Horace of his selfishness through a series of transformative visions that ultimately reduce him to a beggar, forcing
him to confront his flaws. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ganthony, Richard, 1857?-1924 |
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| Title | A message from Mars : A fantastic comedy in three acts |
| Original Publication | New York: Samuel French, 1923. |
| Note | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_from_Mars_(play) |
| Note | Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_from_Mars_(play) |
| Credits | Tim Lindell, University of South Dakota and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 87.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Subject | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama |
| Subject | Dreams -- Drama |
| Subject | Selfishness -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 74852 |
| Release Date | Dec 7, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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