Books like Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
12 books with a reading profile close to Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets] by William Shakespeare. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
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King Lear
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In 1608, William Shakespeare’s tragedy follows an aging British monarch who abdicates his throne and divides his territory based on his daughters’ public professions of love.
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
by W.B. Yeats
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
This volume tracks the evolution of William Butler Yeats’s poetic output across four decades, charting a progression from early Victorian romanticism to a starker, modernist aesthetic.
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Hans Castorp, a young engineer, visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, intending to stay for three weeks.
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Inferno
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Dante Alighieri narrates his descent through nine concentric circles of hell under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil.
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Faust, First Part
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Heinrich Faust, a disenchanted scholar, abandons traditional medicine, theology, and philosophy after realizing that intellectual mastery has failed to reveal the secrets of the universe.
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Moby-Dick
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Ishmael, a schoolmaster seeking relief from a melancholy spirit, joins the crew of the Pequod, a whaling vessel departing from Nantucket.
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by Sophocles
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
These three plays by Sophocles follow Thebes' royal family through its curse.
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Heart of Darkness
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Charles Marlow, a seasoned sailor, narrates his passage aboard a steamship into the Congo Free State to retrieve Mr.
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Dante Alighieri narrates his own passage through the three realms of the afterlife, beginning in a dark forest where the Roman poet Virgil meets him.
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Demons
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In nineteenth-century Russia, a small provincial town becomes the staging ground for a revolutionary cell led by the manipulative Pyotr Verkhovensky.
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense
John Milton composed this epic poem in blank verse to justify the ways of God to men.
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WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Wilhelm Meister begins as a merchant’s son who abandons his family’s commercial expectations to join a troupe of traveling actors.
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