18 books like Cyrano de Bergerac

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Le Cid Pierre Corneille · 1636 · ★ 3.6 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name. It tells the story of Rodrigue and Chimene, whose fathers' feud violently interrupts their love. Though they never disavow their love for one another, revenge is deemed more important to each. Corneille's play sparked much dispute about dramatic method. Shares: French drama, Théâtre, French language, Drama

Ruy Blas Victor Hugo · 1838 · ★ 3.6 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Trois especes de spectateurs composent ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler le public : premierement, les femmes ; deuxiemement, les penseurs ; troisiemement, la foule proprement dite. Ce que la foule demande presque exclusivement a l'oeuvre dramatique, c'est de l'action ; ce que les femmes y veulent avant tout, c'est de la passion ; ce qu'y cherchent plus specialement les penseurs, ce sont des… Shares: French drama, French language, Drama, Classic Literature

Tartuffe Molière · 1707 · ★ 3.8 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Demanding 1 online resource Shares: French drama, Théâtre, French language, Drama

Annonce Faite a Marie, L' Paul Claudel · 1912 · ★ 5.0 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "The action revolves around the relationship between the two sisters who are totally different i temperament and yet who are indissolubly joined. Violaine is the good sister who will represent Christian charity in its fullest sense. Mara (whose name in Hebrew means 'bitter') is the jealous sister who will, at the end of the play murder Violaine ..." -- Introduction. Shares: French drama, French language, Drama

Phèdre Jean Racine · 1677 · ★ 3.7 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Phèdre est un tourbillon de folie amoureuse et de sang. Des divinités invisibles égarent les héros de Racine, les jetant dans la fureur... Héritière d'une lignée maudite, Phèdre devrait aimer le prince Thésée, son mari. Elle brûle au contraire pour son beau-fils Hippolyte, d'une fièvre qui la ronge, la conduit au délire et au crime. Plongée dans " l'inimaginable enfer " de la jalousie, elle… Shares: French drama, Théâtre, Drama, Classic Literature

En attendant Godot Samuel Beckett · 1952 · ★ 3.8 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish author Samuel Beckett. It is Beckett's best-known literary work and is regarded by critics as "one of the most enigmatic plays of modern literature." It was written (1948–1949), first published (1952), and first performed (1953) in French as En attendant Godot. Waiting for Godot is Beckett's own English-language adaptation. Subtitled "tragicomedy in two acts",… Shares: French drama, Translations from French, English drama, Drama

Paul et Virginie Bernardin de Saint-Pierre · 1789 · ★ 3.7 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Paul and Virginia, two fatherless children are brought up in poverty and innocence, amid the tropical scenery of the island of Mauritius. Virginia is recalled to France by a harsh and wealthy aunt. There she is miserable, and after two years returns to the island. But her ship is wrecked and she is drowned before the eyes of Paul. Shares: Translations from French, French language, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers Jules Verne · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. Shares: Translations from French, French language, Adventure

Une mort tres douce Simone de Beauvoir · 1964 · ★ 4.1 · 123p · ≈ 4h · Moderate La journée du mardi se passa bien. La nuit, maman fit des cauchemars. On me met dans une boîte, disait-elle à ma sœur. Je suis là, mais je suis dans la boîte. Je suis moi, et ce n'est plus moi. Des hommes emportent la boîte! Elle se débattait: Ne les laisse pas m'emporter! Longtemps Poupette a gardé la main posée sur son front: Je te promets. Ils ne te mettront pas dans la boîte. Elle a réclamé… Shares: French Authors, French language, Biography & Memoir

Hernani Victor Hugo · 1830 · ★ 3.4 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Challenging L'auteur de ce drame ecrivait il y a peu de semaines a propos d'un poete mort avant l'age: «...Dans ce moment de melee et de tourmente litteraire, qui faut-il plaindre, ceux qui meurent ou ceux qui combattent? Sans doute, il est triste de voir un poete de vingt ans qui s'en va, une lyre qui se brise, un avenir qui s'evanouit; mais n'est-ce pas quelque chose aussi que le repos? N'est-il pas… Shares: French drama, Drama, Classic Literature

King Henry VIII William Shakespeare · 1670 · ★ 3.5 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Demanding "This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII - known in its early performances as All is True - for over ten years. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations, and includes an up-to-date survey of the play in performance. It is the first edition to… Shares: Théâtre, English drama, Drama, History

Plays August Strindberg · 1906 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging For contents, see Author Catalog. Shares: Théâtre, Drama, History

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe · 1609 · ★ 3.8 · 91p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Marlowe's play has two different recognized texts, with most editions based on the B text. Due to recent arguments for the authenticity of A, this edition is based on the A text. It includes a discussion of biographical, dramatic and theatrical aspects of the play. Shares: In literature, English drama, Drama, Classic Literature

Photobiography Akane Kawakami · 2013 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the real, and the nature of the… Shares: French Authors, Biography & Memoir, History

Wallenstein Friedrich Schiller · 1800 · ★ 3.7 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Challenging »Wallensteins Tod« ist der dritte Teil von Friedrich Schillers 1798/99 uraufgeführtem und im Jahr 1800 erschienenem dreiteiligen monumentalen Versdrama »Wallenstein«, dessen ersten beiden Teile »Wallensteins Lager« und »Die Piccolomini« sind. Angeregt durch historische Studien, die in sein Werk »Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges« (1790–92) mündeten, behandelt Schiller die letzten drei… Shares: In literature, Drama

Henry IV, Part 1 William Shakespeare · 1598 · ★ 3.8 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities. Shares: In literature, English drama, Drama, History

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: Théâtre, English drama, Drama, History

Fables Jean de La Fontaine · 1678 · ★ 4.1 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature. Humorous, nuanced and ironical, they were originally aimed at adults but then entered the educational system and were… Shares: Translations from French, French language

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