13 must-read plays books like The Old Maid by Zoë Akins

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The Old Maid

By: Zoë Akins

3.26

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

The Old Maid is a 1935 play adapted by American playwright Zoe Akins from Edith Wharton's novella, …

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Cover of You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman

1. You Can't Take it With You

By: Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman

3.98

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

At first the Sycamore family seems mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, … read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Quiet, everybody! Quiet! Well, Sir, we've been getting along pretty good for quite a while now, and we're certainly much obliged. Remember, all we ask is to just go along and be happy in our own sort…"

-Moss Hart, You Can't Take it With You

"Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Penny, why don't you write a play about Ism-Mania? Penny Sycamore: Ism-Mania? Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Yeah, sure, you know, Communism, Faschism, Voodoo-ism, everybody's …"

-Moss Hart, You Can't Take it With You

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2. The Green Pastures: A Fable

By: Marc Connelly

3.89

Format: 7 pages,

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Similar categories in Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures: A Fable book and Zoë Akins's The Old Maid

  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Street Scene by Elmer Rice

3. Street Scene

By: Elmer Rice

3.00

Format: 54 pages,

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Similar categories in Elmer Rice's Street Scene book and Zoë Akins's The Old Maid

  • plays
  • drama

4. Both Your Houses

By: Maxwell Anderson

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses book and Zoë Akins's The Old Maid

  • plays
  • drama
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5. Why Marry?

By: Jesse Lynch Williams

4.20

Format: 445 pages,

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Similar categories in Jesse Lynch Williams's Why Marry? book and Zoë Akins's The Old Maid

  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

6. 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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7. Beyond the Horizon

By: Eugene O'Neill

4.12

Format: 192 pages,

1920. Generally agreed to be one of the most significant forces in the history of the American thea… read more

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8. They Knew What They Wanted

By: Sidney Howard

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Tony, an aging Italian winegrower in the California Napa Valley, who proposes by letter to Amy, a S… read more

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Cover of Idiot's Delight (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Robert E. Sherwood

9. Idiot's Delight (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Robert E. Sherwood

3.67

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A young English couple on their honeymoon, a German scientist, a French munitions magnate, the insc… read more

Similar categories in Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) book and Zoë Akins's The Old Maid

  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Alison's House by Susan Glaspell

10. Alison's House

By: Susan Glaspell

3.45

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

The action of the play takes place December 31, 1899, at the end of the old century just before the… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

11. Icebound

By: Owen Gould Davis

2.86

Format: 116 pages, Library Binding

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the tes… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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12. Craig's Wife

By: George Kelly

3.49

Format: 126 pages, Pamphlet

Winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Craig's Wife is a scathing and insightful work by one … read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Miss Lulu Bett: A Play by Zona Gale

13. Miss Lulu Bett: A Play

By: Zona Gale

3.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The stage play Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale (1874-1938) is adapted from her novel Miss Lulu Bett, pu… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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14. Men in White

By: Sidney Kingsley

3.45

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

Men in White is a 1933 play written by American playwright Sidney Kingsley. It was produced by the … read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Old Maid by Zoë Akins

15. The Old Maid

By: Zoë Akins

3.26

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

The Old Maid is a 1935 play adapted by American playwright Zoe Akins from Edith Wharton's novella, … read more

Similar categories in Zoë Akins's The Old Maid book and Zoë Akins's The Old Maid

  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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16. The Shrike

By: Joseph Kramm

3.50

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Jim Downs is brought to the psychiatric division of City Hospital after a suicide attempt. With the… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

7 best-selling fiction books like The Old Maid by Zoë Akins

Transform Your Habits

You Can't Take it With You

Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Green Pastures: A Fable

Marc Connelly

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Why Marry?

Jesse Lynch Williams

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Alison's House

Susan Glaspell

3.45

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7 best-selling fiction books like Alison's House by Susan Glaspell

Transform Your Habits

Strange Interlude

Eugene O'Neill

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Green Pastures: A Fable

Marc Connelly

3.89

Transform Your Habits

When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

Meena Kandasamy

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Why Marry?

Jesse Lynch Williams

4.20

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