Books like 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.
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
Mansfield's stories of family life in New Zealand and England, among them At the Bay, The Garden Party and The Daughters of the Late Colonel.
Skylark
An ageing provincial couple send their plain daughter to relatives for a week and discover, in her absence, a life they had hidden even from themselves.
The Overcoat
A lowly clerk in St. Petersburg has his overcoat stolen, and the bureaucracy's indifference to his suffering turns a comic story into a ghost story and a scream of protest.
Fathers and Sons
A young nihilist clashes with his traditionalist host in pre-reform Russia, and the generational conflict becomes a portrait of an entire society on the verge of transformation.
Krapp's Last Tape
A play: on his sixty-ninth birthday, Krapp, alone in his den with bananas and a tape recorder, listens to the tape he made thirty years before, about a woman in a punt.
The Remains of the Day
An ageing English butler reflects on a lifetime of service, repressed love, and the moral compromises of loyalty to a flawed master.
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.
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Xu Sanguan, a silk-factory worker in a small town, sells his blood whenever his family needs money, through the famine years and the Cultural Revolution.
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.
Staying On
Tusker and Lucy Smalley, a retired colonel and his wife, have stayed on in an Indian hill station after Independence, living in the annexe of a hotel whose owner wants them out.
The Optimist's Daughter
A woman returns to Mississippi after her father's death and has to contend with his young second wife and her own memories of home.
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.