8 Top plays books like The Innocents by William Archibald

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The Innocents

By: William Archibald

3.26

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Melodrama adapted from Henry James' The Turn of the Screw 1 male, 3 female, 1 boy and 1 girl aged …

If you liked the plays plot in The Innocents by William Archibald , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Man in the Brown Suit

By: Agatha Christie

3.95

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—a… read more

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"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"But his face should really inspire you with confidence, my dear lady. No self-respecting murderer would ever consent to look like one. Crippen now, I believe was one of the pleasantest fellows imagin…"

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

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2. Dial M for Murder

By: Frederick Knott

3.95

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A three act drama for five men and one woman about a murder-for-hire gone wrong. read more

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  • theatre
  • plays

3. Uncle Harry : a play in three acts

By: Thomas Job

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

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  • plays
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4. And Then There Were None: A Mystery Play in Three Acts

By: Agatha Christie

3.83

Format: 496 pages,

First presented at St James' Theatre in London on November 17, 1943. The play opened on Broadway at… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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5. Parnassus on Wheels

By: Christopher Morley

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"I warn you," said the funny-looking little man with the red beard, "I'm here to sell this caravan … read more

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6. An Inspector Calls

By: None

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more

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  • plays
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7. number9dream

By: David Mitchell

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work… read more

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8. On Bullshit

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more

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9. Arsenic and Old Lace

By: Joseph Kesselring

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and… read more

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10. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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11. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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12. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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13. People, Places and Things

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Emma is in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn't with Emm… read more

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14. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Ele… read more

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15. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.85

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more

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"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

16. The Desperate Hours: A Play

By: Joseph Hayes

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

A Play, based on the novel of the same name. The story of a prison escape set in Indiana. Book incl… read more

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17. Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciou… read more

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"You're not tall, but you walk like you are."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"New things are the best kind of magic there is."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"I have a reservoir filled with lightning under my heart."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"When a scientist speaks, it behooves the ordinary soul to listen."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

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18. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

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"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

Cover of Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2) by Anthony Horowitz

19. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.05

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bests… read more

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"Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible."

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

"I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope."

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

"The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]"

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

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20. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

By: John Koenig

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more

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"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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21. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

By: Miles Harvey

3.69

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more

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22. Ladies in Retirement

By: Edward Percy

3.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Miss Fiske, ex-actress, lives in a remote house with her companion, Ellen Creed. Ellen, who has dev… read more

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23. The Innocents

By: William Archibald

3.26

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Melodrama adapted from Henry James' The Turn of the Screw 1 male, 3 female, 1 boy and 1 girl aged … read more

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  • theatre
  • grad school
  • plays
Cover of Night Must Fall: a Play in Three Acts by Emlyn Williams

24. Night Must Fall: a Play in Three Acts

By: Emlyn Williams

3.68

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

In a bungalow in a forest in Essex lives Mrs Bramson, a persnickety and hypochondriacal widow. She … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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25. Kind Lady: A Play

By: Edward Chodorov

3.85

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

A dignified, aristocratic woman living quietly in her London home is gradually surrounded by diabol… read more

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  • plays
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26. Hostile Witness

By: Jack Roffey

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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