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Books like A View from the Bridge

12 books with a reading profile close to A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Charles Strickland is an ordinary London stockbroker with a wife and two children until he abandons them without explanation and moves to Paris to paint.
2

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

by William Faulkner

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Faulkner's collection centers on the title story, in which the townspeople of Jefferson, Mississippi, attend the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, a reclusive woman from an old family.
3

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in 1894, the narrative follows Louise Mallard as she receives news of her husband Brently’s death in a railroad disaster.
4

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

In seventeenth-century Paris, a wealthy patriarch named Orgon falls under the spell of Tartuffe, a man posing as a pious ascetic.
5

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Tony Last is a gentle English country gentleman who lives at Hetton Abbey, a Gothic mansion he loves, with his wife Brenda and young son John Andrew.
6

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

In the affluent backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century New York, Catherine Sloper lives under the scrutiny of her father, Austin, a prominent physician who views his daughter as dull and unremarkable.
7

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Set in the shifting social landscape of 1910s New York, the narrative follows Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a massive tycoon fortune, and his marriage to the socialite Gloria Gilbert.
8

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Farquhar, a Southern planter, is being hanged for attempting to sabotage an Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War.
9

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
10

El llano en llamas

by Juan Rulfo

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

Juan Rulfo's collection has seventeen short stories set in the arid countryside of Jalisco in Mexico, after the Revolution and the Cristero War.
11

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

This collection gathers short fiction depicting the mundane lives of late nineteenth-century Russian peasants, clerks, and aristocrats.
12

The Complete Fairy Tales

by Oscar Wilde

Also thought-provoking · literary, classic literature

This collection brings together stories including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, and The Nightingale and the Rose.

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