9 must-read classics books like The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

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The Lady from the Sea

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.85

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Doktor Wangel ist Arzt in einer Kleinstadt an der Westküste Norwegens. Er lebt zusammen mit seinen …

"Å, forstår du da ikke, at forvandlingen kom, - at forvandlingen måtte komme - da jeg fik vælge i frihed."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea

"Å, forstår du da ikke, at forvandlingen kom, - at forvandlingen måtte komme - da jeg fik vælge i frihed."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea

If you liked the classics plot in The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • scandinavian literature
  • plays
  • drama
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2. The Zoo Story

By: Edward Albee

3.90

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

Cover of Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars by Seán O'Casey

3. Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars

By: Seán O'Casey

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms / Strange Interlude / Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill, None

4. Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms / Strange Interlude / Mourning Becomes Electra

By: Eugene O'Neill , None

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, Richard L. O'Connell, James Graham-Lujan

5. Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba

By: Federico García Lorca , Richard L. O'Connell , James Graham-Lujan

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

In these three plays, Garcia Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

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7. Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama

8. Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare , Sylvan Barnet , Alvin Kernan , Russell Fraser

3.65

Format: 448 pages,

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9. Sweet Bird of Youth

By: Tennessee Williams

3.77

Format: None pages,

The very title of Sweet Bird of Youth is one of ironic pity. The two chief characters--a raddled ha… read more

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10. A Dream Play

By: August Strindberg , Caryl Churchill

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Strindberg's A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change i… read more

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11. Les amantes

By: Elfriede Jelinek , Martin Chalmers

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Quel est le destin d'une ouvriere, ou plutot comment echapper a son destin quand on est ouvriere ? … read more

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12. Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson

By: Eugène Ionesco , Derek Prouse , Donald Watson

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and … read more

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13. Exiles

By: James Joyce

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The only extant play by the great Irish novelist, Exiles is of interest both for its autobiographic… read more

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14. The Devil's Trinity

By: Michael Parker

4.26

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more

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  • fiction
"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

15. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Miller

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more

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16. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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17. American Buffalo

By: David Mamet

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. Ivanov

By: Anton Chekhov , None , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragi… read more

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19. The Father

By: August Strindberg

3.61

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Many experiences in the personal life of dramatist August Strindberg involved duels between the sex… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • scandinavian literature
  • plays
  • drama
"You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father"

-August Strindberg, The Father

"Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs, senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by …"

-August Strindberg, The Father

20. Miss Julie and Other Plays

By: August Strindberg , Michael Robinson

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two fi… read more

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21. The Lady from the Sea

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.85

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Doktor Wangel ist Arzt in einer Kleinstadt an der Westküste Norwegens. Er lebt zusammen mit seinen … read more

Similar categories in Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea book and Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea

  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • womens
  • scandinavian literature
  • plays
  • drama
"Å, forstår du da ikke, at forvandlingen kom, - at forvandlingen måtte komme - da jeg fik vælge i frihed."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea

22. Mrs. Warren's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more

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23. Rent

By: Jonathan Larson

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

In these pages, Rentoffers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and f… read more

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24. Candida

By: George Bernard Shaw , None

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. I… read more

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25. From Manchester to the Arctic

By: Sheena Billett

4.31

Format: 261 pages, ebook

In the challenging but rapidly changing 1970s, Connie Sanders, a broken-hearted nurse, flees to the… read more

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  • drama
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The first wave of homesickness caught Connie by surprise. She had not heard or felt its approach until it hit her hard, knocking her to the ground."

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"As she was putting her boots on Daisy threw a barb over her shoulder that struck Connie right in the middle of her chest. ‘Grow up, Connie! This place is not for faint-hearted romantics!"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell whe…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"It was almost 3 a.m. before Connie got into bed. Sipping cocoa in the cold daylight and listening to the silence, only punctuated by the distant barking of dogs, she began to wonder what she had done…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

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26. The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

By: J.B. Lion

4.32

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

epic fantasy graphic fiction novel with mythologic and spiritual themes. read more

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  • fiction
  • drama
"Monster? Monster, you say?"

-J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

"The Order? Here inside such a weak soul?"

-J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

"Continue your search for the truth but remember one thing--all things are possible."

-J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

"Everyone is so enamored with the puppet; they never notice the man pulling the strings."

-J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

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27. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

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  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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28. Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

By: Karl Braungart

4.31

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine you find yourself losing bits of time. Almost like a dream you only slightly remember. Envi… read more

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  • fiction
  • drama
"Well, here’s the shocker,"

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"Yes, I never expected to see you!"

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"Their war maneuvers excluded shame."

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook."

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

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29. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

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  • drama
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30. The Local School

By: Colin Phelan

4.28

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although many view schools, colleges, and universities as the primary places from which we attain a… read more

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"Water is to India as blood is to the body, with the many rivers functioning as arteries – the Ganges being the aorta – and the monsoon timelessly arriving as a much-needed annual blood transfusion."

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

"Everyone is recharged for the second half, no bell, no forced learning, no principal’s office for tardiness or absenteeism; instead, a voluntary return to our collective pane of learning. Final conve…"

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

"Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the til…"

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

"It is here where education is championed and gratefully pursued as the human right which many in our world classify it to be. For although regarded as a human right, many entitled to education often …"

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

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31. Growing Up American: A Novel

By: Rafael Polo

4.29

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fi… read more

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"When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

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