6 must-read plays books like Enter a Free Man by Tom Stoppard

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Enter a Free Man

By: Tom Stoppard

3.61

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Little Theatre Comedy Tom Stoppard 5 male, 3 female Complete Interior Set Riley's a dreamer with al…

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1. Doctor Zhivago

By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more

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"Only the superfluous is sordid"

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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2. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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3. Too Good To Be True (Shetland Island, #6.2)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy … read more

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4. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • drama
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5. Astercote

By: Penelope Lively

3.62

Format: 128 pages,

A brother and sister discover that nearby woods not only hide the site of a medieval village but al… read more

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6. Habeas Corpus

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeousl… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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7. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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8. To Have and Have Not

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.52

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more

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"He was mad and plenty brave."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

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9. The White Guard

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Michael Glenny

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

The White Guardis less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it i… read more

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10. She Stoops to Conquer

By: Oliver Goldsmith

3.91

Format: 20 pages,

This comic masterpiece mocked the simple morality of sentimental comedies. Subtitled The Mistakes o… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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11. The Lower Depths

By: Maxim Gorky , None

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This compelling 1902 play, considered Gorky's masterpiece, centers on a group of wretched souls who… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

12. The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

By: Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Audible Audio

"But the thing is," said Horley, "they didn't know each other at all. Never heard of each other. It… read more

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13. London Assurance

By: Dion Boucicault , Richard Bean , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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15. The Circle - A Comedy in Three Acts

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.89

Format: None pages,

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16. The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

By: Susan Cooper

4.00

Format: 98 pages,

"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; w… read more

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17. Abigail's Party

By: Mike Leigh

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Mike Leigh. Forty years on from its first perfo… read more

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18. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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19. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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20. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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21. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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22. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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23. Why do Shepherds Need a Bush? London's Underground History of Tube Station Names

By: David Hilliam

3.55

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Who traveling through Totteridge and Whetstone is aware that the station got its name from the medi… read more

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24. The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

By: Philip Pullman

4.04

Format: 784 pages, ebook

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and s… read more

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"We need to imagine as well as measure."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

"You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

"But he was a human being, or part of one, and he felt just as Lyra did: unhappy, and guilty, and wretchedly lonely."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

"What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is." "Spirit is what matter does."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

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25. Fry's Ties

By: Stephen Fry

3.80

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry's witty companion to our most distinguished acces… read more

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26. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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27. Realms of Glory: (Lindchester Chronicles 3) (The Lindchester Chronicles)

By: Catherine Fox

4.52

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

How will it all end? Come, dear reader, and join with the good and the bad of the Diocese of Lindch… read more

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28. Tom Stoppard: A Life

By: Hermione Lee

4.24

Format: 978 pages, Hardcover

With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figure… read more

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  • drama
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29. Frost Fair

By: Carol Ann Duffy

3.94

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

It is a snowy London day in The Great Winter of 1683. We follow our bold narrator as she explores ‘… read more

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30. Enter a Free Man

By: Tom Stoppard

3.61

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Little Theatre Comedy Tom Stoppard 5 male, 3 female Complete Interior Set Riley's a dreamer with al… read more

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  • drama
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31. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

7 must-read drama books like Enter a Free Man by Tom Stoppard

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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All My Sons

Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

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Habeas Corpus

Alan Bennett

3.74

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She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith

3.91

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9 Top fiction books like Paradise Lost by John Milton, John Leonard

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

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King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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