18 books like Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding

What to read after Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Rime of the ancient mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1827 · ★ 4.0 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance… Shares: Community pick

Arthurian drama Alan Lupack · 1991 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This anthology reproduces six plays based on stories of King Arthur from a variety of periods. Originally published in 1991, it offers a comprehensive discussion of Arthurian Drama in introduction and also provides an appendix listing printed scripts in English that address Arthurian legend. Shares: English, English drama, Drama

The Toy-Shop; a Dramatick Satire Robert Dodsley · 1700 · 41p · ≈ 1h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Early works to 1800, Drama

The Transatlantic Zombie Sarah J. Lauro · 2015 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth’s migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of… Shares: Performing Arts, Literary Criticism

The Tempest William Shakespeare · 1611 · ★ 3.8 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Demanding The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his… Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Literary Criticism, Drama

Poetry and belief in the work of T.S. Eliot Kristian Smidt · 1949 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature. Shares: English, Literary Criticism

Works of Elizabeth Gaskell Joanne Shattock · 2006 · 562p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Features Elizabeth Gaskell's work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including a diary written between 1835 and 1838 when she was a young mother, her five full-length novels and "The Life of Charlotte Bronte". Shares: English, Literary Criticism

Salomé Oscar Wilde · 1893 · ★ 3.7 · 65p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a… Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Drama

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: English drama, Drama

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

Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1603 · ★ 4.0 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Demanding In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art. The title role of… Shares: Performing Arts, Literary Criticism, Drama

Cha guan She Lao · 1980 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Literary Criticism, Drama

Faerie queene Edmund Spenser · 1590 · ★ 3.6 · 818p · ≈ 27h · Demanding The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. Each book of the poem recounts the quest of a knight to achieve a virtue: the Red Crosse Knight of Holinesse, who must slay a dragon and free himself from the witch… Shares: Literature - Classics, English, Literary Criticism

The misfortunes of Arthur Thomas Hughes · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This book contains images of pages from the 16th-century play titled "The Misfortunes of Arthur" by Thomas Hughes and fellow members of Grays Inn. Shares: English drama, Drama

Sick Heart River John Buchan · 1940 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live. Fearing he will die unfulfilled, he devotes his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker. Galliard is in remotest Canada searching for the River of the Sick Heart. Braving a severe Arctic winter, Leithen finds Galliard and feels his own health returning. The North has healed both men, but only… Shares: English, Literary Criticism

The Browning cyclopaedia Edward Berdoe · 1898 · 578p · ≈ 19h · Challenging This is a guide to the study of the works of Robert Browning. The book reflects the various references that would help in working or studying of the works of Robert Browning. Shares: English, Literary Criticism

Plays (36) William Shakespeare · 1623 · ★ 3.6 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Demanding Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, 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: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism, Drama

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