7 must-read plays books like Idlaflickorna by Kristina Lugn

Idlaflickorna

By: Kristina Lugn

3.25

Format: 39 pages, None

Kristina Lugn är en av våra mest lästa och älskade poeter. Sedan debuten 1972 har hon skrivit sju d…

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1. Romeos Julia

By: Victoria Benedictsson

4.22

Format: None pages,

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2. Kvinnor och äppelträd

By: Moa Martinson

3.75

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Sally och Ellen, ättlingar i tredje led till mor Sofi på Storgården, växer båda upp i Norrköpings a… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • read for school
Cover of Doctor Glas by Margaret Atwood, Hjalmar Söderberg, Paul Britten Austin

3. Doctor Glas

By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of enduring power,  Doctor Glas  confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more

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  • swedish literature
"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

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4. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

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5. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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6. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • plays
  • read for school
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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8. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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9. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

10. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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11. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • plays
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12. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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13. Vitsvit

By: Athena Farrokhzad

4.08

Format: 581 pages, Hardcover

I Athena Farrokhzads diktsamling Vitsvitturneras utsagor om vald och vithet, i en dialog mellan fam… read more

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  • swedish literature
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14. Att döda ett barn

By: Stig Dagerman

3.62

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Att doda ett barn ar en novell av Stig Dagerman, publicerad forsta gangen 1948. Novellen skrevs pa … read more

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  • swedish literature
  • read for school

15. The Ghost Sonata

By: August Strindberg , None

3.59

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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16. The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw

By: Anonymous , None

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

The Saga of Gisliwas written early in the thirteenth century. It offers an imaginative reconstructi… read more

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17. A Dream Play

By: August Strindberg , Caryl Churchill

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Strindberg's A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change i… read more

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18. Kris

By: Karin Boye

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Genom sina kanslor for skolkamraten Siv tvingas den unga Malin Forst att omvardera sitt liv. Pa tro… read more

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19. Herr Arnes penningar

By: Selma Lagerlöf

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

En narmast gotisk roman baserad pa verkliga handelser i Bohuslan pa 1570-talet. Prasten Herr Arne b… read more

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20. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • plays
"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

21. Natten är dagens mor

By: Lars Norén

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Unbound

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22. 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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  • swedish literature
  • plays
  • drama
"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

23. Darling River

By: Sara Stridsberg

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Darling Riverar en bade omsint och sorgsen vidarediktning av Vladimir Nabokovs roman om en aldre ma… read more

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24. The Book of the City of Ladies

By: Christine de Pizan , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-… read more

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25. Räddad

By: Alfhild Agrell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Dramat Raddad av Alfhild Agrell innehaller ett inspirerande ursinne. Pjasen, som kom ut 1882, har e… read more

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26. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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27. Idlaflickorna

By: Kristina Lugn

3.25

Format: 39 pages, None

Kristina Lugn är en av våra mest lästa och älskade poeter. Sedan debuten 1972 har hon skrivit sju d… read more

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  • drama
  • swedish literature
  • plays
  • read for school
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28. Sveket

By: Birgitta Trotzig

3.77

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

»Om Tobit«, så börjar det. Ett tungt bibliskt andetag: »han var en man som levde samman med en ankl… read more

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  • swedish literature
Cover of Caesaria by Hanna Nordenhök

29. Caesaria

By: Hanna Nordenhök

3.32

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

På ett ensligt sommarresidens förvarar en framstående kvinnoläkare en flicka han en gång skar fram … read more

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30. Junker Nils av Eka

By: Astrid Lindgren

3.42

Format: 31 pages, None

Pojken Nils ligger sjuk hemma i den ensliga torpet Eka. I feberdrömmarna hör han Kung Magnus ropa p… read more

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31. Gisli Súrssons saga

By: Unknown

3.03

Format: 166 pages, Unknown Binding

Någon gång på 900-talet flyttar Gísli Súrsson från Norge till Island. Där dras han snart in i en tr… read more

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