Books like Beware of Pity
12 books with a reading profile close to Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The End of the Affair
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in London during and after the Blitz, the novel follows Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who begins a physical relationship with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant.
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nora Helmer lives as a pampered wife and mother under the strict domestic authority of her husband, Torvald.
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3
The Heart of the Matter
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Henry Scobie, a deputy police commissioner in a West African British colony during the Second World War, is a conscientious Catholic who has been passed over for promotion.
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The Meek One
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
A middle-aged pawnbroker ponders the corpse of his young wife, who has just committed suicide by jumping from their window while holding an icon.
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The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Konstantin Treplev, an aspiring playwright, stages an experimental outdoor performance to impress Nina Zarechnaya, a young actress whom he loves.
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Passing
by Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in 1920s Harlem and Chicago, the narrative follows the unexpected reunion of two childhood friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry.
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Madame Bovary
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Emma Bovary, a country doctor’s wife in provincial France, finds her domestic life suffocatingly dull.
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8
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
Also deep and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
In 1930s Edinburgh, schoolmistress Jean Brodie selects six young pupils to become the Brodie set, her personal elite.
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Othello
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In seventeenth-century Venice and Cyprus, a high-ranking Moorish general named Othello secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a nobleman.
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10
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set on a Mississippi Delta cotton estate, the narrative centers on the Pollitt family during Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday.
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11
The Woman Destroyed
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
This collection consists of three long-form stories centered on the psychological and social erosion of aging women in 1960s France.
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Oblomov
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a young Russian nobleman who lives in a state of terminal inertia within his dusty St.
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