8 best-selling plays books like Educating Rita by Willy Russell

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Educating Rita

By: Willy Russell

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Educating Rita' portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education. It premiered in L…

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1. A Dog's Life

By: Peter Mayle

3.81

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Boy, an uncannily shaggy canine of unknown origins, and now undisputed master of the Mayle househol… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Maria Stuart

By: Friedrich Schiller , Wilhelm Große

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Nach meiner Ansicht ist Maria Stuartdie pathetischste und am besten durchdachte von allen deutsche… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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3. Wilhelm Tell

By: Friedrich Schiller

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das 1804 erschienene und in Weimar - unter der Regie von Johann Wolfgang Goethe - uraufgefuhrte Bla… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Educating Rita by Willy Russell

4. Educating Rita

By: Willy Russell

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Educating Rita' portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education. It premiered in L… read more

Similar categories in Willy Russell's Educating Rita book and Willy Russell's Educating Rita

  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Pygmalion and Three Other Plays

By: George Bernard Shaw , John A. Bertolini

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Three Other Plays book and Willy Russell's Educating Rita

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi… read more

Similar categories in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced book and Willy Russell's Educating Rita

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

By: Steve Martin

3.89

Format: 197 pages,

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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8. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

Similar categories in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit book and Willy Russell's Educating Rita

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

9. Ivanov

By: Anton Chekhov , None , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragi… read more

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10. The Whispering Land

By: Gerald Durrell , Ralph Thompson

4.12

Format: None pages,

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11. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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12. Twelve Red Herrings

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Jeffrey Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves, As The Crow Flies, a… read more

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13. Private Lives

By: Noël Coward

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, … read more

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14. Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Neil Simon

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

The first in Neil Simon's "Eugene Trilogy," followed by Biloxi Bluesand Broadway Bound Winner of a… read more

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15. Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey

By: Jackie Kay

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that … read more

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16. Boys Don't Cry

By: Malorie Blackman

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the explosively page-turning new novel for teenagers from the author of the award-winning "… read more

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17. Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, Parts 1-2

By: David Bevington , Christopher Marlowe , Eric Rasmussen

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is t… read more

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18. The Real Thing

By: Tom Stoppard

4.16

Format: 200 pages,

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19. Amadeus

By: Peter Shaffer

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Ambition and jealousyall set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his riva… read more

Similar categories in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus book and Willy Russell's Educating Rita

  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art."

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"I bet you that's how God hears the world! Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to us!"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

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20. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

Similar categories in Dean Mafako's Burned Out book and Willy Russell's Educating Rita

  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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21. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

Similar categories in Tabita Gutu's Wife For Sale book and Willy Russell's Educating Rita

  • drama

10 best-selling fiction books like Educating Rita by Willy Russell

Transform Your Habits

A Dog's Life

Peter Mayle

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Maria Stuart

Friedrich Schiller , Wilhelm Große

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Wilhelm Tell

Friedrich Schiller

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

4.62

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14 must-read fiction books like Burned Out by Dean Mafako

Transform Your Habits

J.B.: A Play in Verse

Archibald MacLeish

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea

J.M. Synge

2.70

Transform Your Habits

The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic

Wendy Wasserstein

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Four Major Plays, Vol. 1: A Doll House / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen , Rolf Fjelde

3.93

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