'Fences' by August Wilson: A Commentary
By: David Wheeler
3.61
Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition
A short critical essay which considers the significance of the title.
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1. 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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"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
2. 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
3. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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4. Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3)
By: William Shakespeare
3.57
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part Oneagain pits a rebellion within th… read more
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5. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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6. The Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career… read more
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7. Night (The Night Trilogy #1)
By: Elie Wiesel , Marion Wiesel
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration c… read more
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8. 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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9. American Born Chinese
By: Gene Luen Yang
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more
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10. Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more
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11. Water by the Spoonful
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned … read more
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12. Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more
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"Therein lies the rub."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
13. 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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14. Wit
By: None
4.48
Format: None pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more
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15. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
By: August Wilson
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blue… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien
4.10
Format: None pages,
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each… read more
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18. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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19. Of Mice and Men
By: John Steinbeck
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more
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20. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
By: Thomas C. Foster
3.17
Format: 319 pages,
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden r… read more
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21. The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more
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22. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
By: Arthur Miller
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more
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23. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)
By: August Wilson
4.23
Format: 690 pages,
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more
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24. The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
3.68
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more
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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She had resolved to never take another step backward."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. Positively Izzy (Emmie & Friends #2)
By: Terri Libenson
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Award-winning comics creator and author of the bestselling Invisible Emmie Terri Libenson returns w… read more
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29. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
30. If You'll Have Me
By: Eunnie
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Super sweet and totally heartwarming!”—Alice Oseman, bestselling author of Heartstopper and Lovele… read more
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31. 'Fences' by August Wilson: A Commentary
By: David Wheeler
3.61
Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition
A short critical essay which considers the significance of the title. read more
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