The Critic
By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
3.50
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In "The Critic" Richard Brinsley Sheridan turns his attention to satirize the Theatre and all the p…
Want to Read $ 10.44"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
"Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!"-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed."-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
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1. Men Explain Things to Me
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.83
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more
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"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
2. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
3. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
5. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
6. High Windows
By: Philip Larkin
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of poems which includes some of the poet's best-known pieces (The Old Fools, This Be t… read more
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7. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
8. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: * printed version of the … read more
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9. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
10. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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11. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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12. Six Characters in Search of an Author
By: Luigi Pirandello , Edward Storer
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires t… read more
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13. Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires … read more
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14. 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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15. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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16. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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17. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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18. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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19. Hangmen
By: Martin McDonagh
4.05
Format: 371 pages,
In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best han… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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23. No Exit
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more
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24. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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25. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)
By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more
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26. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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27. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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28. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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29. Measure for Measure
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.38
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more
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30. The Critic
By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
3.50
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In "The Critic" Richard Brinsley Sheridan turns his attention to satirize the Theatre and all the p… read more
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"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
"Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!"-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed."-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
31. Ring Round the Moon
By: Jean Anouilh
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
NYTs Brooks Atkinson called it a work "of many moods... wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic...… read more
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