13 best-selling classics books like The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

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The Zoo Story

By: Edward Albee

3.90

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written…

"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

If you liked the classics plot in The Zoo Story by Edward Albee , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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2. La Cantatrice chauve

By: Eugène Ionesco

3.76

Format: 149 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tout le monde la connaît. Peu peuvent l'expliquer. C'est ce que fait à merveille Emmanuel Jacquart,… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver."

-Eugène Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve

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3. The Cocktail Party

By: T.S. Eliot

3.74

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary Wes… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"There's no memory you can wrap in camphor But the moths will get in."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

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4. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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5. The Zoo Story

By: Edward Albee

3.90

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written… read more

Similar categories in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story book and Edward Albee's The Zoo Story

  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

6. Buried Child

By: Sam Shepard

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

7. Happy Days

By: Samuel Beckett

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. The Caretaker

By: Harold Pinter

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Betrayal

By: Harold Pinter

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betrayalis Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play b… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. 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

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"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

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11. Les Bonnes

By: Jean Genet

3.60

Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book

The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."

-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes

12. 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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13. The Hairy Ape

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.75

Format: None pages,

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was a Nobel prize winning American playwright. More than any o… read more

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14. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

15. The Lieutenant of Inishmore

By: Martin McDonagh

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troublesin Northern Ireland aga… read more

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16. The Birthday Party

By: Harold Pinter

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more

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17. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama

18. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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19. 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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20. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

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  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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21. Growing Up American: A Novel

By: Rafael Polo

4.29

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fi… read more

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"When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

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3.58

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La Cantatrice chauve

Eugène Ionesco

3.76

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3.74

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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Edward Albee

4.06

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Caryl Churchill

3.58

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4.20

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