The Miser and Other Plays

8 best books like The Miser and Other Plays (Molière): The Cherry Orchard, Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, Poems of Heinrich Heine, The School for Scandal and Other Plays, The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter, Six Plays of Strindberg: The Father / Miss Julie / The Stronger / Easter / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata, The Black Obelisk, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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...

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

Author

Henrik Ibsen

In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of...

Poems of Heinrich Heine

Author	Heinrich Heine
ISBN	1440050783

Excerpt from Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Poems, Selected and Translated

But it needs something more than a list of antitheses to understand this restless genius, a confusing figure who has been paired with such names as Catullus, Aristophanes, Burns, Rabelais,...

The School for Scandal and Other Plays

Author	Richard Brinsley Sheridan
ISBN	0192825674

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for...

The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter

Author

Harold Pinter

Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in...

Six Plays of Strindberg: The Father / Miss Julie / The Stronger / Easter / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata

Author	August Strindberg
ISBN	0385092725

August Strindberg one of the founders of the modern theater, a playwight whom Bernard Shaw considered "the only genuinely Shakespearian modern dramatist" and of whom Sean O'Casey exclaimed, "Strindberg, Strindberg, Strindberg, the greatest of them all."

This collection offers the most...

The Black Obelisk

Author	Erich Maria Remarque
ISBN	0449912442

From the author of the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Black Obelisk is a classic novel of the troubling aftermath of World War I in Germany.

A hardened young veteran from the First World War, Ludwig now works for a monument company, selling stone markers to the survivors of deceased...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Author	Hilda D. Spear
ISBN	0333372867

I can't believe I'm rating this 4 stars! The entire time I read it, I kept thinking, I can't stand this book, it's so bizarre, what's wrong with all these psycho characters, it's so dark etc.... But I couldn't put the book down! How often does that happen with classics? Not that often when I'm reading them!...