Books like Major Barbara
12 books with a reading profile close to Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw. Deep; a moderate read.
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1984 and Animal Farm
by Rafael Arrais, George Orwell
Also deep · 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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2
Die Physiker
Also deep · 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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Island
Also deep · philosophy, literary
The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
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4
Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
Also deep · philosophy, literary
Jean Anouilh's play, first staged in occupied Paris in 1944, retells Sophocles.
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Measure for Measure
Also deep · 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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Oscar Wilde's Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems
by Oscar Wilde, H Pearson
philosophy, literary
This volume assembles the primary literary output of the Victorian era’s most notable wit, including the full text of "The Importance of Being Earnest" alongside "Lady Windermere’s Fan." The collection balances Wilde’s…
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The Wall
Also deep · philosophy, literary
Sartre's collection takes its name from the title story, set during the Spanish Civil War.
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Il visconte dimezzato
Also deep · 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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Metamorphoses
by Ovid
Also deep · philosophy, literary
Ovid’s hexameter narrative tracks the history of the world from its chaotic origins to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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Fathers and Sons
Also deep · 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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Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Also deep · 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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In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
Also deep · philosophy, literary
In Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," an explorer witnesses a brutal execution machine in a remote penal colony.
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