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by Jack London
4.0(16,889)
In the unforgiving Yukon, a lone prospector battles the brutal cold and his own hubris, learning too late that nature's power far exceeds human will.
by Theodor Fontane
3.3(16,568)
Trapped in a loveless marriage to an older baron, the youthful Effi Briest seeks fleeting solace in a forbidden affair, only for its long-buried secret to resurface years later with devastating, inescapable consequences.
by Giovanni Verga
3.5(16,503)
In a sun-drenched Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family's ancient rhythms of life and livelihood are tragically shattered by an unforgiving sea and the relentless tides of change they can neither comprehend nor control.
by Luigi Pirandello
4.0(16,216)
After escaping a dreary life by faking his own death, Mattia Pascal discovers that shedding one identity only traps him in another, making him a ghost in both worlds.
by Anton Chekhov
3.8(15,982)
Three cultured sisters in a provincial town long for life in Moscow, but time and reality slowly erode their dreams.
by Susan Wilson
4.1(15,736)
A disgraced executive, stripped of his gilded life, finds an unexpected path to redemption and healing through the unconditional love of a rescued pit bull named Chance, proving that even the most broken can save each other.
by Eudora Welty
3.5(15,677)
A daughter returns to her Southern hometown after her father's death, uncovering family truths and her own identity within the rooms of her childhood home.
by Garth Greenwell
3.8(15,624)
An American teacher in post-communist Bulgaria searches for anonymous sex and finds a dangerous obsession with a young hustler, reflecting his own troubled past.
by Anne Tyler
3.8(15,471)
Barnaby Gailtin, the family outcast, hopes for a new life with the arrival of Sophia, but his past and a lost family threaten his fragile hope.
by Yukio Mishima
3.9(15,437)
In post-war Japan, a young man's growing homosexuality becomes a stifling secret, forcing him to face the divide between his inner desires and the life he feels forced to live.
by Aeschylus
3.9(14,958)
After the Trojan War, King Agamemnon returns home, unaware of his wife Clytemnestra's plan for revenge, which ends in his murder and a lasting curse on the House of Atreus.
by Augusten Burroughs
3.6(14,920)
At Sellevision, the home shopping network, hosts grapple with public disgrace, personal meltdowns, and very public wardrobe malfunctions.
by Javier Cercas
3.9(14,756)
In the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, a fascist writer escapes execution twice, first from a firing squad, then by the mercy of an unknown militiaman. A modern writer searches for the soldier who chose compassion.
by David Mamet
3.9(14,669)
In a cutthroat Chicago real estate office, four desperate salesmen claw and backstab for leads, their careers, and their very masculinity as a high-stakes sales contest threatens to strip them of everything.
by Hanif Kureishi
3.7(14,621)
In 1970s suburban London, a mixed-race teenager named Karim escapes his humdrum life and navigates his identity through the chaotic, often hilarious, world of experimental theater and burgeoning self-discovery.
by Euripides
4.0(14,330)
When gods stay silent, Euripides shows the raw human rage of betrayed queens and vengeful daughters as they break society's rules to get their horrific justice.
by Neil Simon
4.0(14,146)
A messy sportswriter's life gets turned upside down when his neat-freak friend moves in, proving that domestic harmony is anything but for this odd couple.
by Luigi Pirandello
3.9(13,928)
Six unfinished characters interrupt a play rehearsal, demanding the actors bring their own tragic, unwritten drama to life.
by Philipp Meyer
3.7(13,587)
In a decaying Pennsylvania steel town, two inseparable friends are caught in a violent act, forcing them to confront the realities of their fading American dream and the desperate loyalty that binds them.
by Bohumil Hrabal
3.7(13,350)
Amidst the comedic chaos of a sleepy Czech railway station and the burden of his own virginity, a young apprentice finds himself drawn into an unexpected act of wartime heroism against the occupying Germans.
by Jonathan Coe
4.1(13,246)
Attraverso le vicende grottesche e brutali della famiglia Winshaw, questo romanzo dipinge un affresco socio-politico esilarante e agghiacciante dell'Inghilterra thatcheriana, rivelando sorprendenti analogie con la realtà contemporanea.
by Margaret Edson
4.2(13,110)
An English professor, brilliant and emotionally distant, specializing in John Donne's Holy Sonnets, faces advanced ovarian cancer. This forces her to question a life built on logic and language, and to discover the essential need for human connection.
by Manuel Puig
4.0(12,842)
In an Argentine prison, a flamboyant homosexual's movie stories become a bridge to intimacy with a Marxist, even as a dangerous ultimatum closes in.
by Milan Kundera
3.9(12,685)
At a fertility spa, a jazz trumpeter's one-night stand leads to a five-day mix-up of mistaken paternity, jealous lovers, and philosophical jokes, showing how modern life has stripped us of tragedy.