18 books like Fröken Julie

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Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2003 · ★ 4.2 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A book about a flower thing Shares: Community pick

Les tragiques Agrippa d' Aubigné · 1800 · 203p · ≈ 6h · Challenging La douloureuse histoire des guerres de religion, Agrippa d'Aubigné l'a vécue, jour après jour, dans le camp protestant, dès sa plus tendre enfance. Très tôt, il fut le témoin de scènes de massacre et il participa tout jeune aux combats. Ecuyer d'Henri de Navarre, il partagea avec lui une vie d'aventures et, immobilisé par une blessure, composa le long poème des Tragiques. Cette œuvre de colère… Shares: Continental european drama, Poetry

The gentle shepherd Allan Ramsay · 1734 · 105p · ≈ 3h · Demanding The Gentle Shepherd Allan Ramsay, scottish poet, playwright and publisher (1686-1758) This ebook presents «The Gentle Shepherd», from Allan Ramsay. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- PREFACE -03- THE LIFE OF ALLAN RAMSAY -04- REMARKS ON THE WRITINGS OF ALLAN RAMSAY -05- ESSAY ON RAMSAY'S GENTLE SHEPHERD -06-… Shares: Librettos, Poetry, Drama

Beggar's opera John Gay · 1728 · ★ 3.4 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Demanding The beggar's opera, John Gay. Revised version of http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/1796 . The beggar's opera Gay, John, 1685-1732 Bear, Richard s.n. s.l. [1765] Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

Ourika Claire de Duras · 1824 · 69p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Based on a true story, Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that makes her suddenly conscious of her race - and of the prejudice it arouses. From this point on,… Shares: Continental European, Race Relations, Drama

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry · 1958 · ★ 3.9 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased… Shares: Motion picture plays, Race Relations, 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: Motion picture plays, Continental european drama, Drama

Manon Lescaut Abbé Prévost · 1734 · ★ 3.3 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon. In Paris, the young lovers enjoy a blissful cohabitation, while Des Grieux struggles to satisfy Manon's… Shares: Operas, Librettos

Supplices Euripides · 1743 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Centering on the right of proper burial for those fallen in battle, Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. In Electra Euripides gives us his version of the famous legend of the murder of Clytaemestra by her children in revenge for her killing their father, a portrayal interestingly different from that in Sophocles' Electra. Narrating sudden reversals in the hero's fortunes,… Shares: Continental European, Continental european drama, Drama

Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen · 1867 · ★ 3.7 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Peer Gynt is a charming but lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to seek his fortune. Confident of success, he has one disastrous adventure after another. In one, he attends the wedding of a wealthy young woman he himself might have married. There he meets Solveig, who falls in love with him. Shares: Film adaptations, Continental european drama, Drama

Burya William Shakespeare · 1789 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Adapted from Shakespeare. Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

Der Ritt der Walkuren Richard Wagner · 1800 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A landmark in the history of opera, Die Walküre is the most popular and most frequently performed opera among those that make up the Ring Cycle. It contains some of Wagner's best-known and memorable music and stands alone as a complete work. This present edition reproduces the full orchestral and vocal score in a clear, modern engraving with large, legible notation for easy reading and study. Do… Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

Romance of Tristan Béroul · 2019 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: Continental European, Poetry

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: Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

Martín Fierro José Hernández · 1894 · ★ 3.7 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Challenging El Gaucho Martín Fierro es un poema narrativo, escrito en verso por José Hernández en 1872, obra literaria considerada ejemplar del género gauchesco. Tiene además una continuación, La vuelta de Martín Fierro, escrita en 1879, este último libro también es conocido como «La vuelta» y la primera parte, como «La ida». "La ida" ha sido seleccionado como libro nacional de Argentina, bajo el título… Shares: Continental European, Poetry

Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Challenging "The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail—with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto… Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

Seven against Thebes Aeschylus · 1812 · ★ 3.7 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters. Shares: Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

Richard Wagner über Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner · 1800 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This libretto contains the original German text and an English translation of the opera by Richard Wagner. It tells the story of a princess who is forced into an arranged marriage with a king, but has fallen in love with another man. Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

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