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Annonce Faite a Marie, L' Paul Claudel · 1912 · ★ 5.0 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "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, Continental european drama, Love, 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, Drama, Classic Literature

Phèdre Jean Racine · 1677 · ★ 3.7 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Challenging 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, Continental european drama, Drama, Classic Literature

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares Drama

Le Cid Pierre Corneille · 1636 · ★ 3.6 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Challenging CHIMÉNEElvire, m'as-tu fait un rapport bien sincère ?Ne déguises-tu rien de ce qu'a dit mon père ?ELVIRETous mes sens à moi-même en sont encore charmés :Il estime Rodrigue autant que vous l'aimez,Et si je ne m'abuse à lire dans son âme,Il vous commandera de répondre à sa flamme. Shares French drama, Continental european drama, Drama

Euripide Euripides · 1884 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Continental european drama, Drama with this book.

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

A mad zombie party Gena Showalter, · 2015 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Ali Bell and Cole Holland's crew of zombie slayers thought they'd won the war against Anima Industries, the evil company responsible for capturing and experimenting on zombies in an effort to discover the secret to immortality. In the last epic clash, the slayers lost many of their crew and closest friends. But Frosty, the ice man himself, has not recovered from one casualty in particularthe love… Shares Love, Kings and rulers

Le barbier de Séville Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais · 1776 · ★ 3.7 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares French drama, Continental european drama with this book.

Pelham Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1828 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Challenging This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The book really illustrates the manners, habits and lifestyles of the rich and famous in the first half of the 19th century. This is a very entertaining read!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true… Shares Drama, Classic Literature

Иванов Антон Павлович Чехов · 1923 · ★ 3.8 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "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

Axël Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam · 1838 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares French drama, Continental european drama with this book.

R.U.R. and The insect play Karel Čapek · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "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

An African Millionaire Grant Allen · 1897 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "A genre classic, Grant Allen's AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE is the perfect addition to our mini library of classic crime fiction. Wealthy, confident, and handsome, Charles Van Drift is not accustomed to being swindled and his brush with Colonel Clay both rattles and infuriates him. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master of disguise, Allen leaves even the… Shares Classic Literature

Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1788 · ★ 3.5 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Continental european drama, Drama, Classic Literature with this book.

Twisted Gena Showalter · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate His vampire girlfriend might have brought him back to life, but he's never felt more out of control. There's a darkness within him, something taking over; changing him. Worse, because he was meant to die, death now stalks him at every turn. Any day could be his last. Once upon a time, the three souls trapped inside his head could have helped him. He could have protected himself. But as the… Shares Love, Kings and rulers

The Drums of Jeopardy Harold MacGrath · 1920 · ★ 3.4 Shares Classic Literature with this book.

The Avenger Edward Phillips Oppenheim · 1908 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The man and the woman stood facing one another, although in the uncertain firelight which alone illuminated the room neither could see much save the outline of the other's form. The woman stood at the further end of the apartment by the side of the desk - his desk. The slim trembling fingers of one hand rested lightly upon it, the other was hanging by her side, nervously crumpling up the glove… Shares Classic Literature

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