Books like Antigone
12 books with a reading profile close to Antigone by Jean Anouilh. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Il visconte dimezzato
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
During a war against the Turks in Bohemia, a young nobleman, Viscount Medardo of Terralba, is split down the middle by a cannonball.
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Island
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
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The Wall
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Sartre's collection takes its name from the title story, set during the Spanish Civil War.
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No Exit
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Set in a single room furnished with Second Empire sofas, the play follows three deceased individuals—Garcin, Inès, and Estelle—as they realize they are their own torturers.
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5
1984 and Animal Farm
by Rafael Arrais, George Orwell
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
This volume combines George Orwell’s two most famous political allegories, featuring his original text alongside introductory commentary by Rafael Arrais.
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Die Physiker
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
The play takes place within the Les Cerisiers sanatorium, where three physicists reside as patients under the care of Dr.
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Fathers and Sons
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Arkady Kirsanov returns from university to his father's estate in 1859, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a medical student and self-declared nihilist who rejects authority, art, and tradition.
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Measure for Measure
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Duke Vincentio departs Vienna under a pretext of travel, leaving the puritanical Angelo to enforce long-ignored moral laws.
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Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov serves as a juror in a murder trial, only to recognize the defendant as Maslova, a woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier.
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10
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
by Victor Hugo
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Focused on the final six weeks of a prisoner awaiting execution in nineteenth-century France, Victor Hugo’s novel follows an unnamed protagonist from his trial at the Bicêtre Hospital to the guillotine at Place de Grève.
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11
Eugene Onegin
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse follows Eugene Onegin, a cynical aristocrat weary of Saint Petersburg’s high society.
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12
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
by Robert Frost
philosophy, literary
Robert Frost’s 1916 collection, originally titled Mountain Interval, centers on the rural landscapes and social dynamics of New England.
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