7 must-read plays books like Wife by Samuel Adamson

Cover of Wife by Samuel Adamson

Wife

By: Samuel Adamson

3.79

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

- And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and wal…

If you liked the plays plot in Wife by Samuel Adamson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? by Lorraine Hansberry, None, Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff

1. Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

By: Lorraine Hansberry , None , Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Fl… read more

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Cover of Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

2. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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3. Pomona

By: Alistair McDowall

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow. Ollie's sister is missi… read more

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Cover of The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) by Patricia Highsmith

4. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more

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5. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Cover of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Michael   Meyer

6. 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

7. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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8. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. Severance

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more

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"New York has a way of forgetting you."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."

-Ling Ma, Severance

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10. My Body

By: Emily Ratajkowski

4.01

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity. Emily Ratajkowski… read more

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"I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it. (Buying Myself Back)"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

"I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. (Me…"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

"I was also ashamed. I hated myself for trying to impress you. It didn’t feel as if I’d hustled you to get on in life. Instead, it felt as if I’d betrayed and fetishized myself to be appealing to you.…"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

"In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were th…"

-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

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11. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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Cover of A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath

12. A Doll's House, Part 2

By: Lucas Hnath

3.82

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decisi… read more

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Cover of Nora: A Doll's House by Stef Smith

13. Nora: A Doll's House

By: Stef Smith

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its righ… read more

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14. Noura

By: Heather Raffo

4.11

Format: None pages, None

As Noura and her husband Tariq prepare to celebrate a traditional Christmas, she looks forward to w… read more

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15. Wife

By: Samuel Adamson

3.79

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

- And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and wal… read more

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Cover of Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation by Martin Crimp

16. Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

By: Martin Crimp

4.64

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane… read more

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"I love words, that's all. And without this - (Holds up pen.) human history would fall into a black pit and there'd be almost no trace of it."

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

"I love words, that's all. And without this - (Holds up pen.) human history would fall into a black pit and there'd be almost no trace of it. "

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

"Cyrano: I'm sorry - Christian: No you're not. You love her - you want her - now that's what you've got. Shit-looking. Cyrano: Christian. Christian: Shit-looking. All this reading she's done - this 'b…"

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

" De Guiche: Alright - yes - I'm meeting a woman here for sex. Satisfied? Cyrano: Yes, yes - very understandable: you look like a man, but in fact you are an animal. De Guiche: Do I know you? Cyrano: …"

-Martin Crimp, Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

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Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Toni Morrison

4.12

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4.02

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