18 books like Arcadia

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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: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

Mathematical Essays and Recreations Hermann Schubert · 1899 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging http://uf.catalog.fcla.edu/uf.jsp?st=UF021014217&ix=pm&I=0&V=D&pm=1 Shares: Mathematics, Philosophy

Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe · 1662 · ★ 3.8 · 90p · ≈ 3h · Demanding "Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative?" "Michael… Shares: Theatre, British and irish drama, Drama

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1730 · ★ 3.5 · 2364p · ≈ 78h · Demanding Shares: Theatre, English drama, Classics, Drama Shares: Theatre, English drama, Classics, Drama

Иванов Антон Павлович Чехов · 1923 · ★ 3.8 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "In Ivanov, Anton Chekhov's first full-length play, Chekhov created a portrait of a man plagued with self-doubt and despair. Considered one of Chekhov's most elusive characters, he seeks more in life than the self-absorption and ennui he sees in his contemporaries. Tormented by falling out of love with his dying Jewish wife, Ivanov, on her death, proposes to the young daughter of a neighbor, but,… Shares: Theatre, Classics, 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: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

King Richard II William Shakespeare · 1597 · ★ 3.8 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Demanding "Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container. Shares: Theatre, English 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: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

The school for scandal, 1780 Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1778 · ★ 3.6 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Demanding The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777. The play is still popular and regularly performed today. It is a comedy of manners about "the deceptive nature of appearances, the fickleness of reputation, [and] the often disreputable guises behind which goodness and honesty can conceal itself." Shares: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

What every woman knows J. M. Barrie · 1918 · ★ 3.5 National Theatre, direction: A.L. Erlanger & W.H. Rapley, business management: S.E. Cochran. S.E. Cochran offers the National Theatre Players in "What Every Woman Knows," by Sir James M. Barrie, staged by Addision Pitt, scenery by Charles Squires. Stage manager Frank Peck, production built by Charles Sturbitts, properties Geo. Donaldson, electrician, Walter Burke. Shares: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

The Tragedy of Jane Shore Nicholas Rowe · 1714 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This tragedy in five acts was originally performed in the early eighteenth century. The play focuses on one of King Henry IV’s most notorious mistresses, Jane Shore. Shares: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

La vida es sueño Pedro Calderón de la Barca · 1740 · ★ 3.9 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Demanding Si Calderón es el autor teatral barroco por excelencia, cabe también decir que La vida es sueño es una obra que sustancia los grandes temas de este movimiento. La historia del príncipe Segismundo, que sale de la cueva en la que había sido encerrado por su padre para convertirse en rey por breve tiempo -un tiempo que fue un sueño- antes de ser devuelto de nuevo a ella, da pie a un complejo drama… Shares: Theatre, Classics, Drama

Cours de philosophie positive Auguste Comte · 1800 · ★ 3.2 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Auguste Comte publie de 1830 à 1842 son Cours de philosophie positive, dont les quatre volumes constituent un système philosophique englobant l’ensemble des branches de la connaissance, parmi lesquelles la science ultime, la nouvelle « physique sociale », ou « sociologie », qui envisage de manière globale l’évolution de l’esprit humain. Shares: Mathematics, Philosophy

The Way of the World William Congreve · 1700 · ★ 3.3 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Demanding The Way of the World is a comedy play written by the English playwright William Congreve, first performed in 1700. It premiered in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded by critics as one of the finest works of Restoration comedy ever written, and has often been called a centrepiece of the genre. Initially, however, the play struck many audience members as continuing… Shares: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter · 1979 · ★ 4.3 · 777p · ≈ 25h · Moderate Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the… Shares: Mathematics, Philosophy

Feeling is the Secret Neville Goddard · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Your thoughts shape your life, create your reality, and ultimately limit or expand your true potential. This book describes how our thoughts and feelings affect who we become and what we achieve. When we have the power to change them, we gain the power to change our circumstances, our health, and our life's purpose. "The world, and all within it, is man's conditioned consciousness objectified.… Shares: Classics, Philosophy

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw · 1921 · ★ 3.8 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica. Shares: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

The Alchemist, 1612 Ben Jonson · 1612 · ★ 3.4 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Demanding Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's _The Alchemist_ that it had one out of the three most perfect plots in literature. This play, with its sharp portrayal of human folly, is considered by many to be Jonson's best comedy. First performed 1610, its popularity has endured to this day. Shares: British and irish drama, English drama, Drama

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