Books like Mrs. Warren's Profession
A play: Vivie Warren, a brilliant young Cambridge graduate, gets to know her mother properly for the first time and learns where the money for her education came from.
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Major Barbara
A play: Barbara Undershaft, a major in the Salvation Army, is shaken when her estranged father, Andrew, a millionaire arms manufacturer, offers her shelter a donation.
Pygmalion
A play: Professor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics, bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can pass Eliza Doolittle, a Covent Garden flower girl, off as a duchess within months.
The Homecoming
Teddy, a philosophy professor in America, brings his wife Ruth home to meet his father and brothers in their all-male house in North London.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
The Slap
At a suburban barbecue in Melbourne a man slaps a badly behaved child who isn't his, and eight people who were there tell what happened next.
The Cherry Orchard
An aristocratic family's estate is sold to a merchant, and the cherry orchard they can't save becomes a symbol of everything that changes when a social order dies.
The Forsyte Saga
Three novels following the Forsytes, a wealthy London family of the late Victorian age, beginning with Soames, a solicitor who treats his beautiful wife Irene as one more of his possessions.
The Caretaker
Aston brings Davies, an old tramp, home to his cluttered room in West London, and Davies starts playing Aston off against his brother Mick to keep his place.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield, a poor country girl in Victorian Wessex, is sent to claim kinship with a rich family and is wronged by its son, and the world goes on punishing her for it.
A Handful of Dust
A contented English squire devoted to his Gothic country house loses his wife to an idle young social climber, and his life comes apart all the way to the Amazon.
The Winter of Our Discontent
Ethan Allen Hawley, descendant of a proud whaling family reduced to clerking in a Long Island grocery he once owned, begins to wonder what his honesty has ever bought him.
Howards End
The idealistic Schlegel sisters, the wealthy, practical Wilcoxes and a struggling clerk, Leonard Bast, become entangled over a country house and a disputed bequest, in a novel about who will inherit England.