18 books like Romeo and Juliet, 1750

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Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and… Shares: Classics, Drama

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 3.9 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to… Shares: Classics, Drama

Romeo and Juliet (adaptation) William Shakespeare · 1748 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of Shakespeare's play of the tragic consequences of a deadly feud between two rival families in Renaissance Verona. Shares: Vendetta, Shakespeare, Adaptations, Graphic Novels

Plays (43) William Shakespeare · 1663 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Demanding Shares: Vendetta, Juvenile drama, Youth, Classics Shares: Vendetta, Juvenile drama, Youth, Classics

Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton · 1940 · ★ 3.9 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, " We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from… Shares: Textbooks for foreign speakers, English language, Classics

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1730 · ★ 3.5 · 2364p · ≈ 78h · Demanding Shares: Vendetta, Youth, Classics, Drama Shares: Vendetta, Youth, Classics, 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: Juvenile drama, Shakespeare, Drama

Coriolanus William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.7 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Demanding A proud Roman general conquers the Volscians, leads them against Rome in revenge for his banishment, and is killed by the Volscian general when Coriolanus is persuaded to spare the city. Shares: Juvenile drama, Shakespeare, Drama

William Shakespeare Brian Vickers · 2002 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from… Shares: Shakespeare, Adaptations, Drama

The tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare · 1790 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Demanding In “Macbeth”, witches, superstition and mysticism create one of  Shakespeare's more fantastical of plays. Add to it the very real, human elements of self-doubt, manipulation, betrayal and soul-tormenting regret and you get one of the most enjoyable, poignant pieces of literature of all time. One of the things that furthers the play's legend is that many believe it to be cursed. All kinds of… Shares: Juvenile drama, Shakespeare, Graphic Novels, Drama

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1800 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Goneril and Regan betray Lear who goes mad. Shares: Shakespeare, 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: Textbooks for foreign speakers, Drama

Shakespeare's bawdy Eric Partridge · 1947 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's works. Consisting of an alphabetical glossary with cross-references, this book helps the modern reader to make sense of the bawdy. Shares: Shakespeare, English language, Drama

King Arthur J. Comyns Carr · 1893 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Adaptations, Drama

Business Basics David Grant · 1995 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Moderate A brand new collection of essential management skills and best practices from world-renowned experts… in a convenient e-format, at a great price! Your complete modern management library: today’s most crucial skills and best practices for success! From finance to strategy, leadership to communication, these four outstanding books bring together the skills and best practices every manager and… Shares: Textbooks for foreign speakers, English language

1984 George Orwell · 2003 · ★ 4.3 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching. Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty… Shares: Textbooks for foreign speakers, English language

The magic barrel Bernard Malamud · 1953 · ★ 3.9 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This is Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony) they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of… Shares: Textbooks for foreign speakers, English language

Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 4.1 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Demanding Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into… Shares: Juvenile drama, Shakespeare, Drama

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