Books like Oblomov
12 books with a reading profile close to Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
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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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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3
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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4
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Middle-aged history professor George and his wife Martha return home after a campus party and invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, for late-night drinks.
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5
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
One August day in 1912, the Tyrone family gathers at their summer home in Connecticut.
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Noboru, a thirteen-year-old boy in Yokohama, belongs to a secret gang of youths who reject adult morality in favor of a cold, objective nihilism.
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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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8
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The novel chronicles the internal struggles of its narrator, Kochan, as he navigates his adolescence and young adulthood in post-war Japan.
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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
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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