Plays 1: Tea in a China Cup / Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? / Joyriders / The Belle of the Belfast City / My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name? / Clowns
By: Christina Reid
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A collection of plays by one of Ireland's finest dramatists of the 80s and 90sTea in a China Cup fo…
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
3. The Third Policeman
By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more
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"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
4. 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
5. 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
6. Top Girls
By: Caryl Churchill
3.58
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more
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7. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
8. Miss Julie
By: David French , August Strindberg
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more
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9. Sarrasine
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.87
Format: 400 pages,
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch… read more
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10. 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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11. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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12. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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13. The Playboy of the Western World
By: J.M. Synge
4.33
Format: None pages,
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre o… read more
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14. The Arrival
By: Shaun Tan
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more
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15. Riders to the Sea
By: J.M. Synge
3.56
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Although from a middle-class Protestant background, Synge's writings… read more
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16. 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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17. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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18. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
19. The Hostage
By: Brendan Behan
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
An essential text in the development of modern British drama read more
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20. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
22. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
By: Arthur Miller
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more
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23. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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24. Mrs. Warren's Profession
By: George Bernard Shaw
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more
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25. Grania: An Irish Tragedy
By: Lady Gregory
3.53
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more
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26. The Life You Save May Be Your Own
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.46
Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition
When Tom Shiftlet arrives on a farm owned by an old woman and her deaf daughter, he is at first onl… read more
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"The body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always..."-Flannery O'Connor, The Life You Save May Be Your Own
27. Theatre and Ireland (Theatre And, 7)
By: Lionel Pilkington
3.84
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
What is the significance of theatre and performance within Irish culture and history? How do we und… read more
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28. Plays 1: Tea in a China Cup / Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? / Joyriders / The Belle of the Belfast City / My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name? / Clowns
By: Christina Reid
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A collection of plays by one of Ireland's finest dramatists of the 80s and 90sTea in a China Cup fo… read more
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29. After Easter - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
By: Anne Devlin
3.41
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Examines the personal and social backgrounds of Northern Irish citizens living in Ulster and on the… read more
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30. Lippy (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Bush Moukarzel
3.89
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014 In 2000 in Leixlip, co. Kildare, an aunt and 3 sister… read more
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31. Bailegangaire
By: Tom Murphy
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match… read more
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