6 must-read drama books like Dying for It: A Free Adaptation of "The Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman by Moira Buffini

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Dying for It: A Free Adaptation of "The Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman

By: Moira Buffini

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Hallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. When his last hope at turning his…

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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, Volume 1 (The Girl from the Other Side, #1)

By: Nagabe , Adrienne Beck , Lys Blakeslee

4.22

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time... In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beas… read more

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3. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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4. Our Country's Good

By: Timberlake Wertenbaker

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

5. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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6. Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more

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7. V for Vendetta

By: Alan Moore , David Lloyd

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

"Remember, remember the fifth of November..." A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedo… read more

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8. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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9. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

10. Hiroshima

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more

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11. The Elements of Style

By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.

4.18

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more

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"He owned"

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

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12. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

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13. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

14. A Cup of Rage

By: Raduan Nassar , Stefan Tobler

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love' A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man… read more

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15. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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16. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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17. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

18. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

By: Edgar Allan Poe , David Galloway

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

'And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot' This selection of Poe's criti… read more

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19. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

20. Oleanna

By: David Mamet

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss … read more

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21. Planet of the Apes

By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more

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22. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

23. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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24. In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more

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25. Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

By: Quentin Tarantino , None

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or … read more

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26. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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27. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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28. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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29. The Ferryman (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Jez Butterworth

4.36

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Armagh, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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30. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

By: Haruki Murakami

3.87

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegi… read more

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"Don’t let the bad elves get you."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Every person has their own colour."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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31. Dying for It: A Free Adaptation of "The Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman

By: Moira Buffini

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Hallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. When his last hope at turning his… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

6 best-selling plays books like Dying for It: A Free Adaptation of "The Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman by Moira Buffini

Transform Your Habits

Our Country's Good

Timberlake Wertenbaker

3.00

Appropriate

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Faust: First Part

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

3.57

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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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