18 books like Antigone

What to read after Antigone — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Kate Greenaway's Original Drawings for The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen · 1960 · ★ 3.4 · 52p · ≈ 1h · Moderate After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him. Shares: Continental european drama, Drama, Children's fiction

The Adventures Of Odysseus Neil Phillip · 1996 · ★ 4.7 · 72p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Retells the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War. Shares: Continental european drama, Children's fiction

No more dead dogs Gordon Korman · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won't tell a lie -- he hated every minute of the book! Why does the dog in every classic novel have to croak at the end? After refusing to do a rewrite, his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play Old… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury · 1972 · ★ 3.8 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde · 1893 · ★ 3.9 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Demanding It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

21 Great Stories Abraham Harold Lass · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate War, by L. Pirandello -- Eve in darkness, by K. Hurlbut -- There will come soft rains, by R. Bradbury -- Tobermory, by Saki -- The two bottles of relish, by Lord Dunsany -- Footfalls, by W.D. Steele -- Hook, by W.V.T. Clark -- Wine on the desert, by M. Brand -- The lady or the tiger, by F. Stockton -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by A. Bierce -- Cask of Amontillado, by E.A. Poe -- Tell-tale… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition James Edwin Miller · 1952 · ★ 4.0 · 820p · ≈ 27h · Moderate Selections include: ... Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce ... A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin The Cask of Amontillado Fall of the House of Usher The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

Krindlekrax Philip Ridley · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Although he is very thin with frizzy hair and thick glasses, nine-year-old Ruskin believes he is born to be a hero and sets out to prove it by delivering his beloved Lizard Street from the menace of Krindlekrax. Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition X. J. Kennedy · 2016 · 1189p · ≈ 39h · Moderate Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- The tortoise and the geese / Bidpai -- Independence / Chuang Tzu -- Godfather death / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Plot -- The short story -- A & P / John Updike -- Writing effectively -- Point of view… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

The World of Mystery Fiction Elliot L. Gilbert · 1978 · 441p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Victims of my graft / Vidocq -- The prison mazas / William Russell -- Confession found in a prison / Charles Dickens -- Three detective anecdotes / Charles Dickens -- Murders in the rue morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe / Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- A scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The adventure of the… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

Le petit prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943 · ★ 4.3 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Le Petit Prince est une œuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Publié en 1943 à New York simultanément à sa traduction anglaise, c'est une œuvre poétique et philosophique sous l'apparence d'un conte pour enfants. Traduit en quatre cent cinquante-sept langues et dialectes, Le Petit Prince est le deuxième ouvrage le plus traduit au monde après la Bible. Le langage,… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens · 1822 · ★ 3.9 · 434p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Edith Nesbit · 1907 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a collection edited by Edith Nesbit. There are twenty of Shakespeare's plays and a brief biography all told in a manner that is understandable, and enjoyable to children. This book is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's work and will open many literary doors for your child! Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

Meg and Mog Helen Nicoll · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Meg the witch meets her friends for a Halloween party but something goes wrong with the spell they cast. Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen · 1851 · ★ 4.0 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Challenging An ugly and unloved duckling turns out to be a beautiful swan. Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe · 1958 · ★ 4.2 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously… Shares: Drama, Children's fiction

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