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Six Plays: Peer Gynt / A Doll's House / Ghosts / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

10 best books like Six Plays: Peer Gynt / A Doll's House / Ghosts / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder (Henrik Ibsen): On Golden Pond, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway, Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics), More Two-Minute Mysteries, Great Love Poems, Four Plays: Summer and Smoke / Orpheus Descending / Suddenly Last Summer / Period of Adjustment

On Golden Pond
AuthorErnest Thompson
ISBN0451112237
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years...
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN1593080018
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1593080905
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...
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
AuthorCorinne Demas
ISBN1593080867
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural...
Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN1593082533
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.



Published posthumously...
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories
AuthorGeorge Eliot
ISBN1593082517
George Eliot’s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man’s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of the family.

The story opens as Silas Marner, falsely accused of theft, loses everything, including his faith in God. Embittered and...
Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics)
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN1593080379
Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted...
More Two-Minute Mysteries
AuthorDonald J. Sobol
ISBN0590447882
More of what we enjoyed / hated from the first book. One of the stories was about our Doctor Haledjian knowing what side of the skirt is on. Well good for him!

The good ones are a lot of fun but the bad ones are worse than groan-worthy. You're just left wondering where Doctor Haledjian lives that there...
Great Love Poems
AuthorShane Weller
ISBN0486272842
One 65-minute cassette of the finest love poems in the English language — from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay. Works by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Andrew Marvell and many others, all beautifully and sensitively read by Brian Murray and Suzanne Toren and accompanied...
Four Plays: Summer and Smoke / Orpheus Descending / Suddenly Last Summer / Period of Adjustment
AuthorTennessee Williams
ISBN0451525124
I read the first three of the four plays and now we're needing to break from it (it's Cherie's and my latest book club book) so I'll concentrate on school books, except for on my commute, now. Suddenly Last Summer was definitely my favorite, just so shocking and surreal, I don't think you can trust any of...
The World's Great Speeches
AuthorLewis Copeland
ISBN0486409031
This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel.
Among the memorable speeches...
When Your Prayers Seem Unanswered
AuthorS. Michael Wilcox
ISBN1590385861
Tens of thousands of women in the U.S. and Canada have laughed, wept, and learned together at Time Out for Women events. Now you can share the spirit of those occasions with these Time Out mini-books. Each contains a favorite presentation designed especially to uplift and teach. When Your Prayers Seem...
Three Plays: Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape
AuthorEugene O'Neill
ISBN0679763953
Winner of the Nobel Prize

This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of uncontested power from the Nobel laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama.

In Anna Christie, a sailor reunites with his estranged daughter after...
The Romantic Ladies / The Misanthrope / Don Juan or The Feast of the Statue / Tartuffe / George Dandin / The Would-be Gentleman / The School for Wifes / The School for Wifes Critisized / The Miser: Comedies of Molière
AuthorMolière
ISBN1434487547
Moliere has long been on my to-read list because his comedies were on a list of "100 Significant Books" I was determined to read through. The introduction in one of the books of his plays says that of his "thirty-two comedies... a good third are among the comic masterpieces of world literature." The plays...
The Lark
AuthorJean Anouilh
Chapman, writing in the New York News called The Lark: "a beautiful, beautiful play It is always the story of a simple girl who became an inspired warrior and then was tried by the church but there have been several ways of telling it. Anouilh's way, and Miss Hellman's, is to try to tell the story from two...
The Plays of Anton Chekhov
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0060928751
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...
Baal
AuthorBertolt Brecht
ISBN1559704195
بعل ، يك اثر قابل توجه ديگه از برتولت برشت . بعل اولين نمايشنامه اي بود كه برشت نوشت و سرگذشت شاعر جواني است كه بي دغدغه از لذت هاي دنيايي بهره مي جويد و چون به سيري...
Windcatcher
AuthorAvi
ISBN0380718057
Tony can hardly believe it. He's sailing with the wind, maneuvering through the narrow channels between the offshore islands with amazing skill. And he'sjust learned to sail! But suddenly Tony is confused. Which way had he come? Which way is he headed? And who are the mysterious couple with the high...
Dracula's Heir (Interactive Mysteries)
AuthorSam Stall
ISBN1594742855
In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the most famous horror novel of all time. For reasons still debated by scholars, the first chapter of Dracula was cut from the book just weeks before publication. Here, it becomes the central clue in a spine-tingling original...
English Renaissance Drama
AuthorDavid Bevington
ISBN0393976556
Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others reveal why these playwrights achievements, like Shakespeare s, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh in our time. Edited by a team of exceptional...
Speeches That Changed the World: The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History
AuthorThomas Jefferson
ISBN1905204027
I think a more appropriate title of this book would be: "Speeches That Were Made During World-Changing Events (although some of the events included here were questionably world-changing - I'm looking at you St. Francis of Assisi's sermon to the birds)."

A lot of the speeches in this book were...
The Weir and Other Plays
AuthorConor McPherson
ISBN1559361670
McPherson definitely deserves credit for being an entertaining playwright. He never gets too difficult or highbrow, yet he has a fine grasp on how to craft a good story. His characters might not be the most complex, but the unfolding events keep you glued to the page. And like a lot of good scribes, he has...
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