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Books like Heroides

12 books with a reading profile close to Heroides by Ovid, Isocrates, G. Mathieu. Deep; a moderate read.

1

The Portable Oscar Wilde

by Richard Aldington, Oscar Wilde

literary, classic literature

This 1946 compilation preserves the breadth of Oscar Wilde’s literary output, moving beyond his reputation as a mere wit.
2

Tartuffe

by Molière

Also deep · 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.
3

Washington Square

by Henry James

Also deep · 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.
4

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also deep · 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.
5

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

literary, classic literature

In this pastoral comedy, Rosalind flees the court of her usurping uncle, Duke Frederick, and disguises herself as a young man named Ganymede to survive in the Forest of Arden.
6

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Also deep · 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.
7

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Robert Burns’s 1786 collection, originally titled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, documents the intersection of rural labor and linguistic identity.
8

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

Also deep · academic, literary

William Shakespeare’s tragedy centers on the assassination of the Roman dictator and the subsequent civil war.
9

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
10

Portnoy’s Complaint

by Philip Roth

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Alexander Portnoy lies on a psychoanalyst’s couch and delivers a frantic, obscene monologue regarding his sexual frustrations and childhood hangfires.
11

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

Also deep · literary, classic literature

Lyman Ward, a retired historian living with a bone-deteriorating disability, spends his final years chronicling the lives of his grandparents, Susan and Oliver Ward.
12

El llano en llamas

by Juan Rulfo

Also deep · 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.

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