Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette

9 best books like Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette (Jean Anouilh): Stranger in a Strange Land, The Odyssey, Still Life with Woodpecker, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Jude the Obscure, Mossy, Adam Bede, Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis, Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds

Stranger in a Strange Land

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0441788386

Apparently a classic of the sci-fi cannon, I'd never heard of this book until it came up on a book club here. It took me a long time to read only because of lack of time, and a rather annoying trait the author has that I'll go into later.

This is one of those books that tells us more about the period it...

The Odyssey

Author	Homer
ISBN	0143039954

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.

So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as "a distinguished...

Still Life with Woodpecker

Author

Tom Robbins

Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary...

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Author	Aeschylus
ISBN	0140443339

Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, here

In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...

Jude the Obscure

Author	Thomas Hardy
ISBN	0486452433

i have just discovered betterbooktitles.com, so i am including this, but it is a total spoiler, so be warned.

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Mossy

Author	Jan Brett
ISBN	0399257829

Who will help Mossy return home to Lilypad Pond?

Mossy, an amazing turtle with a gorgeous garden growing on her shell, loses her freedom when Dr. Carolina, a biologist,  takes her to live in her Edwardian museum. Visitors flock to see Mossy, but it is Dr. Carolina's niece, Tory, who notices...

Adam Bede

Author	George Eliot
ISBN	0375759018

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community...

Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0226307832

Rhesus by Euripides is about an event told in Book Ten of Homer’s Iliad. It is a short play. It’s interesting but without the dramatic impact of Medea, Orestes or Electra.

The play contains spying, disguises, deception, murder, mistaken identity, manipulation by the gods, horse theft...

Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0140442871

Aristophanes (c.447-385 B.C.), a contemporary of Socrates, was the last and greatest of the Old Attic comedians.Only eleven of his plays survive, and this volume contains Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians, a plea for peace set against the background of the long...