6 Top plays books like The Basset Table by Susanna Centlivre

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The Basset Table

By: Susanna Centlivre

3.26

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expandin…

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Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason

1. Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more

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"Never,"

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"You are human and fallible."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Conventionality is not morality."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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2. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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3. 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

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4. The Man of Feeling

By: Henry MacKenzie , Brian Vickers , Stephen Bending

3.01

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which… read more

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"Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: fo…"

-Henry MacKenzie, The Man of Feeling

Cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Chaon

5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleas… read more

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6. The Rover

By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of … read more

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7. 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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8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more

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"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Cover of For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds by Rick Riordan, Yori Elita Narpati

9. For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds

By: Rick Riordan , Yori Elita Narpati

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

So you've made it to Valhalla. Now what? This "who's who" guide to the gods, goddesses, and other i… read more

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10. The Relapse

By: Bernard Harris , John Vanbrugh

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more

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Cover of Gulliver’s Travels by Louis Rhead, Jonathan Swift, William Dean Howells, Robert DeMaria Jr.

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

Cover of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

13. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

14. The Sellout

By: Paul Beatty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more

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15. 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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16. You Talkin' To Me?

By: Sam Leith

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse… read more

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17. Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more

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18. Evelina

By: None , Edward A. Bloom

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more

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19. The Rape of the Lock

By: Alexander Pope

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more

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20. 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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21. Caleb Williams

By: William Godwin , Maurice Hindle

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins t… read more

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22. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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23. Cosmopolis

By: Don DeLillo

4.00

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently ma… read more

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24. The Figure in the Carpet

By: Henry James

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20t… read more

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25. The Cenci

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

3.77

Format: None pages,

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26. Jackal

By: Erin E. Adams

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the fi… read more

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"When your name is in other people's mouths, they twist it up. They make you into something you are not. When people take you outside yourself, that is when trouble comes."

-Erin E. Adams, Jackal

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27. The Basset Table

By: Susanna Centlivre

3.26

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expandin… read more

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28. Bang Bang

By: Kat Sandler

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"I don't need to know how it goes--you wanted it to be dramatic, and white cops shooting Black kids… read more

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Cover of How Black Mothers Say I Love You by Trey Anthony

29. How Black Mothers Say I Love You

By: Trey Anthony

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Claudette still can’t forgive her mother, Daphne, for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Clau… read more

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30. A Line in the Sand

By: Guillermo Verdecchia

3.69

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the autumn of 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldie… read more

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31. Leo

By: Rosa Laborde

4.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the political u… read more

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12 Best literature books like The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Transform Your Habits

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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