18 books like The melting-pot

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The Fixer Bernard Malamud · 1901 · ★ 4.0 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In Tsarist Russia, Yakov is accused of a ritual murder he did not commit. Shares: Antisemitism, Jews

The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt · 1951 · ★ 4.3 · 550p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations… Shares: Antisemitism, Juifs, Histoire

Plays August Strindberg · 1906 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging For contents, see Author Catalog. Shares: Théâtre, Drama

The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick · 1962 · ★ 3.5 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian… Shares: Juifs, Jews

Une vie Simone Veil · 2007 · ★ 3.9 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Political autobiography of Simone Veil, holocaust surviver, former president of the European Parliament, several times minister in French governments; one of the most outstanding politicians of post-war France and Europe. Shares: Juifs, Histoire

Myth, Legend and Custom in the Old Testament Theodor Herzl Gaster · 1911 · 899p · ≈ 29h · Challenging Shares: Juifs, Jews

The Spanish Inquisition Cecil Roth · 1937 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Documents the events leading up to the Spanish Inquisition beginning in 1478 and the events that followed for the next three and a half centuries. Shares: Juifs, Jews

Der Judenstaat Theodor Herzl · 1896 · ★ 3.5 · 91p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Theodor Herzl’s “Der Judenstaat” is considered one of the most important texts of early Zionism. Herzl envisioned the founding of an independent Jewish state as the best way to avoid anti-Semitism in Europe. The book was published by M. Breitenstein in Vienna on February 14, 1896. Translations into Hebrew, English, French, Russian, and Rumanian appeared in the course of the same year. Altogether… Shares: Antisemitism, Jews

What every woman knows J. M. Barrie · 1918 · ★ 3.5 National Theatre, direction: A.L. Erlanger & W.H. Rapley, business management: S.E. Cochran. S.E. Cochran offers the National Theatre Players in "What Every Woman Knows," by Sir James M. Barrie, staged by Addision Pitt, scenery by Charles Squires. Stage manager Frank Peck, production built by Charles Sturbitts, properties Geo. Donaldson, electrician, Walter Burke. Shares: Emigration and immigration, Drama

Le Cid Pierre Corneille · 1636 · ★ 3.6 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name. It tells the story of Rodrigue and Chimene, whose fathers' feud violently interrupts their love. Though they never disavow their love for one another, revenge is deemed more important to each. Corneille's play sparked much dispute about dramatic method. Shares: Théâtre, Drama

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares: Histoire, Social life and customs

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

Phoenician women Euripides · 1802 · ★ 3.7 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of the Athenian playwright Euripides, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Beautifully illustrated with images relating… Shares: Théâtre, Drama

King Henry VIII William Shakespeare · 1670 · ★ 3.5 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Demanding "This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII - known in its early performances as All is True - for over ten years. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations, and includes an up-to-date survey of the play in performance. It is the first edition to… Shares: Théâtre, 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: Théâtre, Drama

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1821 · ★ 4.1 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman… Shares: Théâtre, Drama

Electra Sophocles · 1588 · ★ 3.7 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Electra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. Shares: Théâtre, Drama

Orestes Euripides · 1753 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the… Shares: Théâtre, Drama

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