Books like Desire Under the Elms
A play: on a stony New England farm in 1850, Ephraim Cabot, seventy-five, brings home a young third wife, Abbie, to the fury of his son Eben, who believes the farm is his.
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Mourning Becomes Electra
A play in three parts setting the Oresteia in New England just after the Civil War: General Ezra Mannon comes home to a wife who hates him and a daughter who adores him.
A Moon for the Misbegotten
A play: on a run-down Connecticut farm, Josie Hogan, a big, bold farm woman, and her scheming father plot to keep their land from Jim Tyrone, the drinking landlord she secretly loves.
The Great Galeoto
A play: when a wealthy Madrid gentleman takes his late friend's son into his home, the town's idle talk about the young man and his patron's wife begins to make the scandal it imagines.
Ethan Frome
A visiting engineer pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a farmer in a bleak Massachusetts village, his sickly, suspicious wife and her young cousin who came to help keep house.
Pelléas and Mélisande
A play: Prince Golaud finds the mysterious Mélisande weeping by a spring in the forest and marries her, and in his gloomy castle she and his young half-brother Pelléas are drawn to each other.
Othello
A Moorish general in the service of Venice marries a senator's daughter and is talked, by a man who tells him he is his friend, into murdering her on their wedding sheets.
Lust, Caution
In occupied Shanghai, Wong Chia-chi, a young student actress, is drawn into a plot to seduce and assassinate Mr Yee, a collaborator in the puppet government.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, tells the story of his charmed family on High Point Farm in upstate New York, and of what became of them after a Valentine's Day dance in 1976.
The Crucible
A 1953 play about the 1692 Salem witch trials, written in answer to the anti-Communist hearings of its day, in which a town lets a vengeful girl's accusations run its court.
Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu comes home to his Sardinian village after prison on the mainland and falls in love with Maddalena, the girl his brother is about to marry.
Ancient Tillage
André, who has run away from his family's farm, is brought home by his older brother, and tells in a torrent of language why he left.