6 Top plays books like Purgatory by W.B. Yeats

Purgatory

By: W.B. Yeats

3.02

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures) by Franco "Bifo" Berardi

1. Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date,… read more

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"Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life."

-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

"Nazism is essentially based on the negation of the human nature of the other, while Fascism is based on the aggressive inclusion of the other, and the punishment and extermination of those who refuse…"

-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

"L’identità è lo strumento percettivo e concettuale che ci dà una possibilità di conoscenza, ma noi scambiamo questa conoscenza per un ri-conoscimento. Cosicché siamo condotti a credere di sapere già,…"

-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

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2. 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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Cover of Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey

3. Juno and the Paycock

By: Seán O'Casey

3.23

Format: 403 pages,

The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more

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  • plays
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4. Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since… read more

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  • classics
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5. De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more

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  • classics
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6. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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7. Metroland

By: Julian Barnes

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrotcould give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition … read more

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8. 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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9. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more

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10. Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more

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11. 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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Cover of Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust, Simon Vance, Lydia Davis

12. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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13. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

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14. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

15. Exiles

By: James Joyce

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The only extant play by the great Irish novelist, Exiles is of interest both for its autobiographic… read more

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16. 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

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17. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

18. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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19. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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20. Krapp's Last Tape

By: Samuel Beckett

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

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21. John Bull's Other Island

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Can you ever really go home again? What if you bring a friend and he is welcomed like a favorite so… read more

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22. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)

By: G.K. Chesterton

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes a… read more

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23. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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24. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more

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25. Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

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26. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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27. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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28. Chapter Two

By: Neil Simon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Full Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Complete interior set Recent widower, writer Georg… read more

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29. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more

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30. 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

31. Purgatory

By: W.B. Yeats

3.02

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

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13 Best classics books like Purgatory by W.B. Yeats

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Juno and the Paycock

Seán O'Casey

3.23

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Aesop's Fables

Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

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Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann

4.03

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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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