15 Best fiction books like She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

Cover of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

She Stoops to Conquer

By: Oliver Goldsmith

3.91

Format: 20 pages,

This comic masterpiece mocked the simple morality of sentimental comedies. Subtitled The Mistakes o…

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1. Arms and the Man

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.06

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Arms and the Manis a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and publ… read more

Similar categories in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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2. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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3. The Way of the World

By: William Congreve

3.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

Similar categories in William Congreve's The Way of the World book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 18th century
  • plays
  • drama
"One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo"

-William Congreve, The Way of the World

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4. 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

Similar categories in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Manfred

By: Lord Byron

3.79

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Manfred contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in Englan… read more

Similar categories in Lord Byron's Manfred book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
  • drama
"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time; its innate sense, When stripped of this mortality, derive…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with t…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

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6. The Master Builder

By: Henrik Ibsen

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First performed in 1892, this psychological drama is one of the great Norwegian playwright's most s… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

7. She Stoops to Conquer

By: Oliver Goldsmith

3.91

Format: 20 pages,

This comic masterpiece mocked the simple morality of sentimental comedies. Subtitled The Mistakes o… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 18th century
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Volpone by Ben Jonson

8. Volpone

By: Ben Jonson

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more

Similar categories in Ben Jonson's Volpone book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

9. The Beggar's Opera

By: John Gay , Bryan Loughrey , T.O. Treadwell

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The P… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 18th century
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

Similar categories in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

11. The Rivals

By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

During a brief but brilliant literary career, Irish-born dramatist and statesman Richard Brinsley S… read more

Similar categories in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 18th century
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge

12. Riders to the Sea

By: J.M. Synge

3.56

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. Although from a middle-class Protestant background, Synge's writings… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

13. Look Back in Anger

By: John Osborne

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more

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14. The School for Scandal

By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upp… read more

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15. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

By: Samuel Johnson , None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas a… read more

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16. The Country Wife

By: William Wycherley , None

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

'Cuckolds like lovers should themselves deceive' So concludes one of Wycherley's most revived and m… read more

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17. All for Love

By: John Dryden

3.69

Format: 496 pages,

Dryden's retelling of Antony and Cleopatra story as a heroic tragedy. read more

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Cover of Wife For Sale by Tabita Gutu

18. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

Similar categories in Tabita Gutu's Wife For Sale book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • drama
Cover of Love on the Line 2 (Women at Work, #2) by Kirsten Fullmer

19. Love on the Line 2 (Women at Work, #2)

By: Kirsten Fullmer

4.30

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

In part two of this extraordinary love story set in the hot, humid, summer of the wide-open mid-wes… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Fullmer's Love on the Line 2 (Women at Work, #2) book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again by Sharon Carter

20. Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

By: Sharon Carter

4.31

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Devastated by the death of her husband in a horrific car accident, Sage lives with a protective arm… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Carter's Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • fiction
  • drama
"Universe, not again. You can't cause another tragedy in my life."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

"Don't fucking move," Jacob said, pressing the gun into Nick's back."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

"I wish i could really believe that---really believe that. I'm glad the two of you met as well."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

"One thing I do know my son-in-law didn't hate you. That man loved you so much, sweetie," her father commented."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

Cover of Projector for Sale by Steven Decker

21. Projector for Sale

By: Steven Decker

4.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Emily Noland is a trauma survivor who never remembers her dreams. While searching for a job, her li… read more

Similar categories in Steven Decker's Projector for Sale book and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

  • fiction
"My people believe in balance,"

-Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

"Emily was beginning to realize that the word hope had a different meaning than the word dream."

-Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

"The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things, and we want to be part of it."

-Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

"My people are taught from a young age to try to remember their dreams, to learn from them, and to aspire to achieve their dreams in the physical world."

-Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

12 must-read classics books like She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

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Arms and the Man

George Bernard Shaw

4.06

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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The Way of the World

William Congreve

3.31

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

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Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

3.52

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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William Congreve

3.31

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