12 Top plays books like Human Animals by Stef Smith

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Human Animals

By: Stef Smith

3.60

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

>"Don't go burying wild animals in my garden… or at least ask for permission first." In the ove…

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Cover of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, John Willett, Ralph Manheim

1. The Threepenny Opera

By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more

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"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

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2. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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3. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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4. The Changeling

By: Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume Th… read more

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"Let me feel how thy pulses beat."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

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5. 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

Cover of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Richard Maxwell

6. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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7. The Octoroon

By: Dion Boucicault

3.98

Format: None pages,

The Octoroon - or, Life in Louisiana; A Play in Five acts by Dion Boucicault Dionysius Lardner Bour… read more

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8. An Octoroon

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play. Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation T… read more

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9. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

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"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

10. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

By: George Saunders

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more

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11. Look Back in Anger

By: John Osborne

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more

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12. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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13. Sir Orfeo

By: Unknown , Edward E. Hunt

2.75

Format: None pages,

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14. 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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15. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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16. L'isola di Arturo

By: Elsa Morante

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Il romanzo e un'esplorazione attenta della prima realta verso le sorgenti non inquinate della vita.… read more

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17. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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18. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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19. Breakfast at Tiffany's

By: Truman Capote

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more

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20. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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21. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

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"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Cover of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

22. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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23. Betty

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl di… read more

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"The earth is warm enough."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

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24. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

By: Zora Neale Hurston

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t… read more

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"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

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25. The Island

By: Athol Fugard

3.78

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of Bound Feet Blues: A Life Told in Shoes by Yang-May Ooi

26. Bound Feet Blues: A Life Told in Shoes

By: Yang-May Ooi

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Chinese tradition, women with tiny bound feet were desirable as wives and lovers, their delicate… read more

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27. Alan's wife; a dramatic study in three scenes

By: Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell

3.42

Format: None pages, Nook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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28. Human Animals

By: Stef Smith

3.60

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

>"Don't go burying wild animals in my garden… or at least ask for permission first." In the ove… read more

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