8 Best plays books like The Vikings of Helgeland by Henrik Ibsen

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The Vikings of Helgeland

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of…

"Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Vikings of Helgeland

"Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Vikings of Helgeland

"Hm, sæt en Ørn i Bur og den vil bide i Stængerne enten de saa ere af Jern eller Guld."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Vikings of Helgeland

"Hm, sæt en Ørn i Bur og den vil bide i Stængerne enten de saa ere af Jern eller Guld."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Vikings of Helgeland

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Cover of La promesse de l'aube by Romain Gary

1. La promesse de l'aube

By: Romain Gary

4.24

Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the battle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because I was her happy ending."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

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2. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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3. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

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4. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • classics
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7. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Fortunately, the Milk

By: Neil Gaiman , Skottie Young

4.06

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this:… read more

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  • fiction
"The piranhas said nothing, but they thrashes about in their bowl, ominously."

-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk

"The piranhas said nothing, but they thrashed about in their bowl, ominously."

-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk

"Dinosaurs are reptiles, sir," said Professor Steg. "We do not go in for milk."

-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk

"Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals."

-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk

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9. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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10. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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11. Britannicus

By: Jean Racine

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Une mere autoritaire et possessive, un fils sournois et pervers, un vertueux demi-frere par allianc… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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12. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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13. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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14. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
  • drama

15. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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16. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

17. Out Stealing Horses

By: Per Petterson , Anne Born

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I… read more

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18. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Andromacha Brytanik Berenika Ifigenia Fedra read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

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19. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

20. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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21. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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22. Shame

By: Salman Rushdie

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN  Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shar… read more

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23. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

24. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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25. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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26. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Cover of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford

27. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

28. Letter to a Child Never Born

By: Oriana Fallaci

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Published by Rizzoli in 1975, Letter to a Child Never Born was quickly translated and sold in twent… read more

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29. The Third Realm (Morgenstjernen, #3)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.33

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face o… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
Cover of La mort de Pompée : tragédie by Pierre Corneille

30. La mort de Pompée : tragédie

By: Pierre Corneille

3.33

Format: 116 pages, Mass Market Paperback

La mort de Pompée . Tragédie Date de l'édition originale : 1644 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit da… read more

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  • plays
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31. The Vikings of Helgeland

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of… read more

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • scandinavian literature
  • plays
  • drama
"Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Vikings of Helgeland

"Hm, sæt en Ørn i Bur og den vil bide i Stængerne enten de saa ere af Jern eller Guld."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Vikings of Helgeland

21 Best fiction books like The Vikings of Helgeland by Henrik Ibsen

Transform Your Habits

La promesse de l'aube

Romain Gary

4.24

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A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

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The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

4.15

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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Antigone

Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

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Tartuffe

Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

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Victor Hugo , John J. Janc

4.57

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