Little Gem
By: Elaine Murphy
4.17
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Love, sex, birth, death, and salsa classes—three generations of Dublin women tell the story of one …
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1. Cathleen ni Houlihan
By: W.B. Yeats
3.57
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Representative British Dramas Victorian and Moder… read more
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2. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
3. Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
3.71
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live… read more
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"Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dan…"-Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
4. The Quare Fellow
By: Brendan Behan
3.83
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more
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"What's a crook, only a businessman without a shop."-Brendan Behan, The Quare Fellow
5. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
6. An Artist of the Floating World
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.77
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art so… read more
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"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120"-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"At times it was almost as it had been years ago, when on a sunny day the family would sit there together exchanging relaxed, often vacuous talk."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
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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"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
8. The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more
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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
9. Juno and the Paycock
By: Seán O'Casey
3.23
Format: 403 pages,
The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more
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10. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
11. The Plough and the Stars
By: Christopher Murray , Seán O'Casey
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
This Educational Edition of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars contains: The full playtext; An… read more
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13. The Playboy of the Western World
By: J.M. Synge
4.33
Format: None pages,
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre o… read more
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14. The Shadow of a Gunman
By: Seán O'Casey
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Irlanda ulusal tiyatro hareketinin oldugu kadar, Irlanda isci hareketinin de onde gelen kisilerinde… read more
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15. Atonement
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides a… read more
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16. Unbelievable (Pretty Little Liars, #4)
By: Sara Shepard
4.10
Format: 9 pages,
FOUR PRETTY LITTLE LIARS' CHARMED LIVES HAVE TURNED INTO LIVING NIGHTMARES. Emily's been shipped of… read more
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17. Translations
By: Brian Friel
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile … read more
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18. Emma
By: Jane Austen , Fiona Stafford
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.' Beaut… read more
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19. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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20. The Emperor's Soul
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Also available in . A heretic thief is the empire's only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabi… read more
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21. The Lonesome West
By: Martin McDonagh
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Unknown Binding
Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find … read more
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22. A Skull in Connemara - Acting Edition
By: Martin McDonagh
3.81
Format: 329 pages,
For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local… read more
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23. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
24. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
25. Queenie
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more
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"Never trust a gemini man"-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
26. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
27. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"And nothing is, but what is not."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
28. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
29. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
30. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
31. Little Gem
By: Elaine Murphy
4.17
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Love, sex, birth, death, and salsa classes—three generations of Dublin women tell the story of one … read more
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