Books like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
12 books with a reading profile close to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. 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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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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3
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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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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Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Zeno Cosini, a rich businessman from Trieste, is told by his psychoanalyst to write his memoirs, and he produces an account of his habits, in particular his failed attempts to give up smoking.
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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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7
Kokoro
by Natsume Sōseki, Edwin McClellan
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The narrative centers on a university student in Tokyo who befriends an older, cynical intellectual he calls Sensei.
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8
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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The Double
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The story follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a socially insecure titular councillor in Saint Petersburg whose fragile mental state shatters when he encounters a man identical to himself.
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10
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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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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Nine Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nine Stories centers on the Glass family and other urban protagonists navigating mid-century American life.
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