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Wilhelm Tell Friedrich Schiller · 1800 · ★ 3.2 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a 'New Year's Gift for 1805' he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play that drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work has become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out… Shares: German drama, German language, Continental european drama, Drama

Maria Stuart Friedrich Schiller · 1801 · ★ 4.1 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Challenging ''Maria Stuart'' (biography), a biography of Mary, Queen of Scots Shares: German drama, German language, Continental european drama, Drama

Salammbô Gustave Flaubert · 1863 · ★ 3.7 · 370p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert.[1] It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC,[1] immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War. After the First Punic War, Carthage is unable to fulfil promises made to its army of mercenaries, and finds itself under attack. The fictional title character, a priestess and the… Shares: Non-English Fiction, Continental european fiction, Classic Literature

Nathan der Weise Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1779 · ★ 3.3 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Nathan the Wise (original German title: Nathan der Weise) is the last play published by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The play was published in 1779; its world premiere took place only in 1783, two years after Lessing's death, at the Döbbelinsches Theater in Berlin. It is a fervent plea for religious tolerance. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, just after the 1187 taking of Jerusalem by… Shares: German drama, German language, Drama

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: German language, Drama

Effi Briest Theodor Fontane · 1894 · ★ 3.3 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her - with… Shares: Non-English Fiction, Continental european fiction, Classic Literature

Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A complete annotated translation of Goethe's "Faust," plus extensive interpretive notes, "Faust" illustrations and other visual sources used by Goethe, several pieces of Goethe's correspondence and commentary, eleven contemporary reviews by well-known writers, and ten modern pieces of criticism; also includes a Goethe chronology and selected bibliography. Shares: German drama, Continental european drama, Drama

Euripide Euripides · 1884 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Phœnician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchæ, The Heraclidæ, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris. Shares: Continental european drama, Drama

The complete plays of Sophocles Sophocles · 1967 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - AjaxTrachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From… Shares: Continental european drama, Drama

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts Joseph von Eichendorff · 1864 · ★ 3.3 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Der Taugenichts ist Sohn eines Müllers und durch und durch Romantiker. Mit den elenden Philistern und der engen Welt, in der sie leben, will er um keinen Preis etwas zu tun haben. Als sein Vater ihn aus dem Haus wirft, damit er endlich lernt, für sich selbst zu sorgen, zieht er mit seiner Geige zu Fuss durchs Land bis nach Italien und lebt seine Freiheit. Auf einem Schloss hatte er sich in eine… Shares: German language, Continental european fiction

La dame aux camélias [novel] Alexandre Dumas fils · 1848 · ★ 4.3 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Mon avis est qu'on ne peut creer des personnages que lorsque l'on a beaucoup etudie les hommes, comme on ne peut parler une langue qu'a la condition de l'avoir serieusement apprise. Shares: German language, Drama, Classic Literature

R.U.R. and The insect play Karel Čapek · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "In 1920 Čapek wrote what was to become his most famous work, the play 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)', a meditation on the themes of humanity and subjugation that introduced the 'robot'. He was prolific throughout the 1920s, his plays addressing a range of subjects, although best remembered as a writer of early science fiction. Čapek also dealt with contemporary moral and political issues,… Shares: Continental european drama, Drama

Le barbier de Séville Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais · 1776 · ★ 3.7 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Un vieux bourgeois enferme dans sa maison une ingénue qu’il entend épouser. Un amoureux, avec l’aide de son rusé serviteur, soustrait la jeune fille à ce mariage forcé – et l’épouse lui-même.C’est un thème de comédie d’intrigue qui ne semble guère neuf. Et pourtant, en 1775, Beaumarchais, dans Le Barbier de Séville, en donne une illustration sautillante, virevoltante, qui suit le rythme de la… Shares: Continental european drama, Continental european fiction

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: Continental european drama, Drama, Classic Literature

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: Continental european drama, Drama, Classic Literature

He, the one who gets slapped Леонид Николаевич Андреев · 1912 · ★ 3.5 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Paul Beaumont is a scientist who labored for years alone to prove his radical theories on the origin of mankind. Baron Regnard becomes his patron, enabling him to do research while living in his mansion. One day, Beaumont announces to his beloved wife Marie and the baron that he has proved all his theories and is ready to present them before the Academy of the Sciences. He leaves the arrangements… Shares: Continental european drama, Drama

Prometheus Bound Aeschylus · 1559 · ★ 3.9 · 72p · ≈ 2h · Demanding An ancient Greek tragedy attributed to Aeschylus. The play follows the sufferings of the Titan Prometheus who has been fastened to a rock by Zeus as punishment for giving the knowledge of fire to mankind. Shares: Continental european drama, Continental european fiction, Drama

Iphigenie auf Tauris Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1787 · ★ 3.2 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Demanding "Iphigenie auf Tauris" ist ein Bühnenstück von Johann Wolfgang Goethe nach der Vorlage von Euripides' Iphigenie bei den Taurern. 1779 schrieb der Dichter eine Prosafassung, die er während seiner Italienreise ab 1786 in ein Versdrama umformte. Den Titel wählte Goethe in falscher Analogie zur latinisierten Version des Titels der Euripidestragödie Iphigenia in Tauris. Der griechische… Shares: German language, Drama

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