11 best-selling plays books like La Calandria by Bernardo Dovizi

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La Calandria

By: Bernardo Dovizi

3.37

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1513, e dunque con le commedie ariostesche tra i primi esempi …

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Cover of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore

1. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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2. Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

By: Agatha Christie

4.20

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels throug… read more

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"I have learned to save myself useless emotion."

-Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

"Ugly as sin, but she makes herself felt. You agree?"

-Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

"​It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria."

-Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

"You console me a little, but only a little,’ said Poirot."

-Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

3. 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

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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4. L'Avare

By: Molière

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harpagon est un vieillard odieux et avare. Avare jusqu'au ridicule, puisqu'il fait comparaitre en j… read more

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5. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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Cover of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

6. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

7. Lacci

By: Domenico Starnone

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

Che cosa lasciamo, quando lasciamo qualcuno? Una casa, una famiglia, il passato, un'idea di futuro,… read more

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8. That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

By: Carlo Emilio Gadda , Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.61

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

In a large apartment house in the center of Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days:… read more

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"Senza amore, muori. Con l'amore, anche. Non tutte le morti sono uguali"

-Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

"Era una giornata meravigliosa: di quelle così splendidamente romane che perfino uno statale di ottavo grado, ma vicino a zompà ner settimo, be', puro quello se sente allacciasse ar core un nun socché…"

-Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

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9. The Gentle Spirit

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.89

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more

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"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

Cover of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, None

10. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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11. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Andromacha Brytanik Berenika Ifigenia Fedra read more

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"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

12. 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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13. La Locandiera

By: Carlo Goldoni , Guido Davico Bonino , None

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Messa per la prima volta in scena sul palcoscenico del Teatro Sant'Angelo a Venezia nel 1753, La lo… read more

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14. The Servant of Two Masters (Plays for Performance Series)

By: Carlo Goldoni

3.83

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wai… read more

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Cover of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Norman Dietz, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Boris de Schlœzer, Emanuela Guercetti, None, Donald Fanger, None, None, None

15. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Cover of Le Malade imaginaire by Molière

16. Le Malade imaginaire

By: Molière

3.63

Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more

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"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

17. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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18. Mandragola

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

3.95

Format: 132 pages,

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19. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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20. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

Cover of Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore by Luigi Pirandello

21. Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore

By: Luigi Pirandello

3.77

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Originally published in Italian in 1915, Shoot! is one of the first novels to take as its subject t… read more

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"Gli uomini hanno in sé un superfluo, che di continuo inutilmente li tormenta, non facendoli paghi di nessuna condizione e sempre lasciandoli incerti del loro destino."

-Luigi Pirandello, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore

"«Ma perché si dev'essere così? Mascherati! Mascherati! Mascherati! Me lo dica lei! Perché, appena insieme, l'uno di fronte all'altro, diventiamo tutti tanti pagliacci?»"

-Luigi Pirandello, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore

"A quanti uomini, presi nel gorgo d'una passione, oppure oppressi, schiacciati dalla tristezza, dalla miseria, farebbe bene pensare che c'è, sopra il soffitto, il cielo, e che nel cielo ci sono le ste…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore

Cover of Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

22. Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson

4.00

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

From the “Icelandic Dickens (Irish Examiner),” a writer who “shares the elemental grandeur of Corma… read more

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"Le lacrime sono fatte come remi, il dolore e la tristezza vogano. Chi piange a un funerale, piange nondimeno la propria morte e quella del mondo, perché tutto muore e alla fine non resta niente. - Lu…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"Erano i tardi anni Ottanta, a breve sarebbe crollato il muro di Berlino e i pezzi sarebbero stati venduti come souvenir, l'essere umano ha la capacità straordinaria di convertire le minacce, la morte…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"في الصمت يدخر الذهب، ذاك الذي يبقى صامتا يلتزم بنفسه، يمكنه اكتشاف امور مختلفة، الصمت يتسرب تحت الجلد، يسكن القلب، يخدر القلق، يغمر الغرفة التي يشغلها المرء، يملأ البيت، وفي الخارج يهدر الزمن الحاضر،…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"En de vogels op de muren zijn zo levendig geschilderd dat de kat uit de buurt, een geel rotbeest dat ons al van nodeloos veel vogels heeft beroofd, de eerste weken herhaaldelijk tegen het gebouw op s…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

Cover of Aminta (Italian Edition) by Torquato Tasso

23. Aminta (Italian Edition)

By: Torquato Tasso

3.73

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

È un dramma pastorale in cinque atti. Il pastore Aminta ama la ninfa Silvia che, seguace di Diana, … read more

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Cover of Ikigai. Il metodo giapponese: trovare il senso della vita per essere felici by Bettina Lemke

24. Ikigai. Il metodo giapponese: trovare il senso della vita per essere felici

By: Bettina Lemke

3.46

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Il segreto giapponese per una vita lunga e felice risiede nel riconoscere il proprio ikigai, che il… read more

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Cover of Neorealismo. Il nuovo cinema del dopoguerra by Stefania Parigi

25. Neorealismo. Il nuovo cinema del dopoguerra

By: Stefania Parigi

3.64

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Il neorealismo attraversa la storia del cinema e della cultura italiana come una sorta di fantasma.… read more

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26. Cinema d'autore degli anni Sessanta

By: Emiliano Morreale

3.48

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Gli anni Sessanta sono stati forse il momento di maggiore gloria del cinema italiano, certo il suo … read more

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Cover of La Calandria by Bernardo Dovizi

27. La Calandria

By: Bernardo Dovizi

3.37

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1513, e dunque con le commedie ariostesche tra i primi esempi … read more

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Cover of La Lena by Ludovico Ariosto

28. La Lena

By: Ludovico Ariosto

3.21

Format: 94 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Commedia in cinque atti, in versi endecasillabi sciolti e sdruccioli. read more

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29. Orbecche

By: Giovanni Battista Giraldi

3.57

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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30. Cinema e pubblico

By: Vittorio Spinazzola

3.20

Format: 383 pages, None

None read more

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Cover of Mandragola - Clizia by Niccolò Machiavelli

31. Mandragola - Clizia

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

3.25

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Nella storia del teatro rinascimentale e nella storia del teatro di tutti i tempi il teatro di Mach… read more

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11 best-selling fiction books like That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italo Calvino, William Weaver

Transform Your Habits

The Skin

Curzio Malaparte , David Moore

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Uomini e no

Elio Vittorini

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Zeno's Conscience

Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Conversations in Sicily

Ernest Hemingway , Elio Vittorini , Alane Salierno Mason

4.53

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