18 books like A View from the Bridge

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving · 1820 · ★ 3.8 · 52p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. Shares: Community pick

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in… Shares: American drama, Play, English drama, Psychology

Geography and Plays Gertrude Stein · 1922 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Geography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s. This edition makes it possible for students and other devotees of Stein to see the developing strategies of one of the acknowledged giants of literary modernism, whose pathbreaking departures in literary style have recently been assigned still greater importance in light of new theories about women’s writing. My brother had been at some… Shares: American drama, Drama

Love for Love William Congreve · 1695 · ★ 3.3 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. To… Shares: Play, English drama, Drama

The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1775 · ★ 3.7 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Demanding A comedy of manners revolving around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society. Shares: Scripts, English drama, Drama

Twelve angry men Reginald Rose · 1955 · ★ 4.5 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Moderate A 'guilty' verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. The conflict which follows is fierce and passionate, cutting straight to the heart of the issues of civil liberties and social justice. This landmark play remains as intriguing and… Shares: American drama, American literature, Drama

Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller · 1940 · ★ 3.6 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The blood of Willy Lohman flows in all of us. The story of the salesman who wanted more for his sons than he knew how to get, who harmed them through his well-meaning dreams but atoned with his life, is at least in part the story of all of us. That is why it is one of the most overwhelming successes of the modern American theatre. --back cover Also contained in: Arthur Miller's Collected… Shares: American drama, Play, Drama

Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw · 1898 · ★ 3.8 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward. After the war she reverses her opinions, though the tangle of relationships must be resolved before her ex-soldier can conclude the last of… Shares: Italians, English drama, Drama

The Godfather Mario Puzo · 1969 · ★ 4.4 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there… Shares: Italian Americans, Drama

Dracula, the vampire play in three acts Hamilton Deane · 1933 · 109p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares: American drama, Drama

The Tempest William Shakespeare · 1611 · ★ 3.8 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Demanding The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his… Shares: Play, English drama, Drama

Candida George Bernard Shaw · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life. Shaw wrote Candida as a reaction to Henrik Ibsen’s social… Shares: English drama, Drama

Poems W. H. Auden · 1934 · ★ 4.2 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Volume 1. This book contains all the essays and reviews that W.H. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books, Letters from Iceland (written in collaboration with Louis MacNeice) and Journey to a War (written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood). Auden's early prose ranges from extravagant… Shares: American drama, English drama

The misfortunes of Arthur Thomas Hughes · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This book contains images of pages from the 16th-century play titled "The Misfortunes of Arthur" by Thomas Hughes and fellow members of Grays Inn. Shares: English drama, Drama

Brighton Beach memoirs Neil Simon · 1743 · ★ 3.9 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Demanding A comedy built around the Jerome family during the Depression and focusing on fifteen-year-old, Eugene, preoccupied with sex and the Yankees. Shares: American drama, Drama

An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde · 1899 · ★ 4.4 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely… Shares: English drama, Psychology, Drama

Arthurian drama Alan Lupack · 1991 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This anthology reproduces six plays based on stories of King Arthur from a variety of periods. Originally published in 1991, it offers a comprehensive discussion of Arthurian Drama in introduction and also provides an appendix listing printed scripts in English that address Arthurian legend. Shares: English drama, Drama

Advances in Psychology Research Alexandra M. Columbus · 2008 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial psychology advances across a broad spectrum. Shares: Psychology

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