Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

6 best books like Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Henrik Ibsen): King Henry VI, Part 3, The Cherry Orchard, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, The Plays of Anton Chekhov, De Zevensprong, The Devil in the Marshalsea

King Henry VI, Part 3

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	1903436311

A thoroughly accomplished piece of playcraft and a significant work of literature, this complex account of civil war is filled with broken oaths, betrayals, and labyrinthine patterns of multi-generational revenge, and Shakespeare gives us a coherent thread of narrative to guide us through...

The Cherry Orchard

Author	Anton Chekhov
ISBN	0413774031

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down...

Ethan Frome and Selected Stories

Author	Edith Wharton
ISBN	1593080905

One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...

The Plays of Anton Chekhov

Author	Anton Chekhov
ISBN	0060928751

These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.

Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates...

De Zevensprong

Author	Tonke Dragt
ISBN	9025844391

Frans van de Steg, teacher, devoted time at the end of each school day to telling tall tales. A born storyteller, he entranced his students with yarns about his adventures, shipwrecks and desert island escapades as hero, Frans the Red. One day, he told his class that he was expecting a letter and headed...

The Devil in the Marshalsea

Author

Antonia Hodgson

London, 1727, and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors' prison.

The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort....