5 must-read plays books like The Shaughraun [An Original Drama in Three Acts] by Dion Boucicault

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The Shaughraun [An Original Drama in Three Acts]

By: Dion Boucicault

3.34

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Publisher: London J. Dicks Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing te…

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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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  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama
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2. The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more

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"Bad world for poor people."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

"To the destruction of what is."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

Cover of A Lost Lady by Willa Cather, A.S. Byatt

3. A Lost Lady

By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt

3.72

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that … read more

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"Tears flashed into her eyes. "That's very dear of you. It's sweet to be remembered when one is away." In her voice there was the heart-breaking sweetness one sometimes hears in lovely, gentle old son…"

-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady

"Under the bluffs that overhung the marsh he came upon thickets of wild roses, with flaming buds, just beginning to open. Where they had opened, their petals were stained with that burning rose-colour…"

-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady

"He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter's f…"

-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady

Cover of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

4. The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more

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"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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5. Cane

By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more

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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"

-Jean Toomer, Cane

Cover of The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Verlyn Klinkenborg, None, Michelle Dean

6. The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more

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"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

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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"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. The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more

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9. If He Hollers Let Him Go

By: Chester Himes , Hilton Als

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful toda… read more

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10. 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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  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Cal by Bernard MacLaverty

11. Cal

By: Bernard MacLaverty

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Caltells the story of a young Catholic man living in a P… read more

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Cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

12. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … 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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  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama

14. The Tragedy of Mariam

By: Elizabeth Cary

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Stephanie Hodgson-Wright's excellent edition of this important work is the most user-friendly avai… read more

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15. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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16. 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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17. The Springs of Affection

By: Maeve Brennan

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

These masterly stories trace the patterns of love in three middle-class Dublin families, patterns a… read more

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18. Room at the Top

By: John Braine

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

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19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • irish literature
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20. Native Son

By: Richard Wright

3.46

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more

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21. The Rising of the Moon

By: Lady Gregory , William-Alan Landes

3.60

Format: None pages,

The Rising of the Moon is a play by Augusta, Lady Gregory. It is a political play which examines An… read more

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22. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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23. Across the Barricades (Kevin and Sadie, #2)

By: Joan Lingard

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Sold… read more

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24. 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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25. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

26. North

By: Seamus Heaney

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In NorthSeamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people… read more

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27. In a Lonely Place

By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more

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28. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • irish literature
Cover of The Sun is Open by Gail McConnell

29. The Sun is Open

By: Gail McConnell

4.23

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a… read more

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30. Ennui

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.36

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The shiftless Lord Glenthorn has money and a title but suffers from ennui—from boredom. When it is … read more

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Cover of The Shaughraun [An Original Drama in Three Acts] by Dion Boucicault

31. The Shaughraun [An Original Drama in Three Acts]

By: Dion Boucicault

3.34

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Publisher: London J. Dicks Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing te… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

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3.57

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3.23

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3.00

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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