The Cocktail Party
By: T.S. Eliot
3.74
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary Wes…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
"There's no memory you can wrap in camphor But the moths will get in."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
"Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
"Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
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1. The Cocktail Party
By: T.S. Eliot
3.74
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary Wes… read more
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- 20th century
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"Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
"There's no memory you can wrap in camphor But the moths will get in."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
"Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
"What you've been living on is an image of Celia Which you made for yourself, to meet your own needs."-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
2. Philoctetes
By: Sophocles
3.89
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Philoctetes is a play written by Sophocles, an ancient Greek playwright, that tells the story of Ph… read more
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- poetry
- classics
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3. The Rose Tattoo
By: Tennessee Williams
3.67
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A tender idyll about a Sicilian woman who must get over the death of her husband. "Forget the uneve… read more
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- classics
- american
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- 20th century
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- drama
4. The Master Builder
By: Henrik Ibsen
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First performed in 1892, this psychological drama is one of the great Norwegian playwright's most s… read more
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- classics
- literature
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5. 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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"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
6. Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
By: Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein
3.85
Format: 320 pages, cloth
Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, th… read more
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- classics
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"My heart's a dance of fear."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Quando dorme la mente scintilla di mille occhi"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Onc…"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
7. Summer and Smoke
By: Tennessee Williams
3.99
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"Summer and Smoke" is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, originally titled Char… read more
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- classics
- american
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"You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!"-Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke
"Oh, you know, and I know, I never had any voice. I had a crush on you, though. Those were the days when I had crushes on girls. Those days are all over— now I have crushes on boys."-Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke
8. The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
By: Edward Albee
3.92
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play si… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
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"Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part."-Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
9. A Delicate Balance
By: Edward Albee
3.91
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Edwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of su… read more
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- american
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"Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief."-Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
10. The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)
By: Aeschylus
3.80
Format: 43 pages, None
Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. Many years af… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- literature
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
11. 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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- literature
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"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
12. The Homecoming
By: Harold Pinter
3.70
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more
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- nobel prize
- classics
- literature
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- 20th century
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"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
13. Collected Shorter Plays
By: Samuel Beckett
4.19
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has … read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
- fiction
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"Personally I always preferred Lipton's."-Samuel Beckett, Collected Shorter Plays
"story … if you could finish it … you could rest … you could sleep … not before … oh I know … the ones I’ve finished … thousands and one … all I ever did … in my life … with my life … saying to myself…"-Samuel Beckett, Collected Shorter Plays
14. Riders to the Sea
By: J.M. Synge
3.56
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Although from a middle-class Protestant background, Synge's writings… read more
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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- 20th century
- plays
- drama
15. The Lost Princess
By: George MacDonald , Bernhard Oberdieck , None
4.28
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
An enchanting, unforgettable fairy tale about two spoiled girls—a princess and a shepherd's daughte… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"To be conceited of doing one's duty is, then, a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it."-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess
"People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are j…"-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess
"Nobody who has not been tried knows how difficult it is; but whoever has come out well of it - and those who do not overcome never do come out of it - always looks back with horror, not on what she h…"-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess
"Whether it is a good thing or a bad thing not to be afraid depends on what the fearlessness is founded upon. Some how no fear because they have no knowledge of the danger; there is nothing fine in th…"-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess
16. Fiddler on the Roof
By: Sheldon Harnick , Jerry Bock , Joseph Stein
4.22
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The full text and complete lyrics, as well as photographs from the original production. “One of the… read more
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"A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?"-Sheldon Harnick, Fiddler on the Roof
"After Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years, do you know what happened? Laban fooled him and gave him his ugly daughter Leah. So to marry Rachel, Jacob was forced to work another seven years. So…"-Sheldon Harnick, Fiddler on the Roof
17. The Dumb Waiter
By: Harold Pinter
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
One of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and… read more
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- classics
- theatre
- 20th century
- fiction
- plays
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18. Closer: A Play
By: Patrick Marber
3.97
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more
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- theatre
- fiction
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"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play
"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play
"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play
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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- literature
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"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. The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
By: Aeschylus
3.73
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
Third play of a trilogy (the other two are lost) about the doomed family of Laius and Oedipus and h… read more
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- classics
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"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor."-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
"Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!"-Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
21. Clybourne Park
By: Bruce Norris
3.78
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Clybourne park had its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Set in Chicago, the play "ap… read more
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22. 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
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- classics
- literature
- theatre
- fiction
- 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
23. The Real Inspector Hound
By: Tom Stoppard
3.90
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
Title: The Real Inspector Hound Binding: Paperback Author: TomStoppard Publisher: SamuelFrench read more
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- theatre
- fiction
- plays
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24. Amadeus
By: Peter Shaffer
4.16
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Ambition and jealousyall set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his riva… read more
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- literature
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"Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art."-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
"What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?"-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
"Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?"-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
"I bet you that's how God hears the world! Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to us!"-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
25. 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
26. 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
27. Puck's Legacy
By: Katie Hall-May
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In the dusty lights of a deserted theatre a bored young woman makes a desperate decision, and the l… read more
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"Secrets breed other secrets. That’s how they work."-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
"Extremism, by its very nature, must always go to its extreme."-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
"I would give anything to hear him say my name one more time. And anything not to."-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
"It’s all just coloured water. Of course it is. Don’t you want to taste something real?"-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy
28. Saint Richard Parker
By: Merlin Franco
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more
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- fiction
- drama
"See you later, tailgater."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"Dark is beautiful, brother."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"A saint has control over his anger and itches."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
29. 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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- poetry
"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
30. The Children at the Gate
By: Edward Lewis Wallant
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The compelling events of this dark and powerful novel take place in the restless, humming world of … read more
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- literature
- fiction
31. Le Père
By: Florian Zeller
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Anne essaie tant bien que mal de s'occuper d'André, son père, que sa mémoire défaillante rend de pl… read more
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