Books like Medea and Other Plays
12 books with a reading profile close to Medea and Other Plays by Euripides. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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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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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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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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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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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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Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
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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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The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Giovanni Drogo, a young officer, is posted to the Bastiani Fortress, an isolated outpost on the northern frontier overlooking a barren plain.
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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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Poems by John Keats
by John Keats
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.
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