13 Top plays books like Man of the Moment - A Play by Alan Ayckbourn

Cover of Man of the Moment - A Play by Alan Ayckbourn

Man of the Moment - A Play

By: Alan Ayckbourn

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Television producer Jill Rillington is taping a documentary, which will reunite Vic Parks with Doug…

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1. First Love

By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use read more

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"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

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2. Skellig (Skellig, #1)

By: David Almond

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Micha… read more

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"There's no end to evolution."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53"

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"Truth and dreams are always getting muddled."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"Can love help a person to get better?’ I asked."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

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3. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
"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

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4. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
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5. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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6. The History Boys

By: Alan Bennett

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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7. Hay Fever

By: Noël Coward

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Ju… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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8. Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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9. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

10. Noises Off

By: Michael Frayn

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but … read more

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11. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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12. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman book and Alan Ayckbourn's Man of the Moment - A Play

  • theatre
  • plays
"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

13. 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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14. Embers

By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more

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15. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

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16. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
"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

17. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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18. The Dumb Waiter

By: Harold Pinter

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

One of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays

19. Private Lives

By: Noël Coward

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, … read more

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20. Design for Living

By: Noël Coward

4.34

Format: 592 pages,

Noel Coward's audacious comedy from 1933, written for himself and the Lunts, centers on a sexual th… read more

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21. Twelve Angry Men

By: David Mamet , Reginald Rose

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introdu… read more

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22. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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23. Playing Burton

By: Mark Jenkins

3.81

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Emmy Award winner Matthew Rhys stars in this fascinating and award-winning one-man show about inter… read more

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  • plays
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24. Still Life

By: Noël Coward

3.80

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Characters: 6 male, 5 female Interior Set One of the Tonight at 8:30 series, a success in London an… read more

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  • plays
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25. Fallen Angels (Library Edition Audio CDs)

By: Noël Coward

3.80

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Julia & Fred and Willy & Jane are "happily married" (whatever that means) and the best of friends, … read more

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  • plays
Cover of Man of the Moment - A Play by Alan Ayckbourn

26. Man of the Moment - A Play

By: Alan Ayckbourn

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Television producer Jill Rillington is taping a documentary, which will reunite Vic Parks with Doug… read more

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  • plays

10 Top theatre books like Man of the Moment - A Play by Alan Ayckbourn

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

All My Sons

Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The History Boys

Alan Bennett

0.00

Transform Your Habits

Hay Fever

Noël Coward

4.04

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Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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All My Sons

Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

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Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

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