If you liked the poetry plot in Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays by Derek Walcott , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. Pinocchio
By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi
3.85
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more
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- fiction
"Hunger is the best cook."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
2. The Mimic Men
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
The Mimic Men is a moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. … read more
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- fiction
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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- theatre
- plays
- fiction
- drama
4. Purple Hibiscus
By: None
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more
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- fiction
5. 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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- theatre
- plays
- fiction
6. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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- theatre
- poetry
- fiction
- plays
"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
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- poetry
- race
- theatre
- post colonial
- fiction
- plays
- drama
Similar categories in Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom book and Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
- theatre
- plays
- drama
9. 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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- theatre
- plays
- fiction
- drama
10. Six Characters in Search of an Author
By: Luigi Pirandello , Edward Storer
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires t… read more
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- theatre
- plays
- fiction
- drama
11. Lucy
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in pape… read more
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- fiction
12. No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil servi… read more
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13. 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
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- theatre
- plays
- fiction
- drama
14. The Tragedy of Mariam
By: Elizabeth Cary
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Stephanie Hodgson-Wright's excellent edition of this important work is the most user-friendly avai… read more
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15. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more
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16. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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17. The Busie Body
By: Susanna Centlivre
4.11
Format: 40 pages,
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more
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18. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
By: C.W.R.D. Moseley , John Mandeville
4.02
Format: 982 pages, Paperback
Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy … read more
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19. 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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20. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
By: Salman Rushdie , None
4.30
Format: 189 pages,
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushd… read more
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21. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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22. Bhimayana
By: Srividya Natarajan , S. Anand , None , Subhash Vyam
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? B… read more
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23. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Gary Saul Morson , David A. Patterson , David Patterson
4.43
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (?????? ??????? ? ?????? ????????????) is an early book-length e… read more
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24. The Alchemist
By: Ben Jonson
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Benjamin Jonson (June 11, 1572 - August 6, 1637) was an English dramatist, actor and poet. He is be… read more
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25. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
26. The Conference of the Birds
By: Attar of Nishapur
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
"El amor ama las cosas difíciles."-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
"چون بلند و پست با هم یار شد آدمی اعجوبه ی اسرار شد"-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
"Quando o amor me subjuga o coração, meu canto é como o suspiroso mar."-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
"في قرارة كل شخص مــائة خنزير...فإما أن يسفك دم الخنزير، أو أن يعقد الزنار"-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
27. Further Than the Furthest Thing
By: Zinnie Harris
3.63
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
On a remote volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic, a community has lived undisturbed for ce… read more
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- plays
- drama
28. Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran
By: Bahram Beyzaie
3.69
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
None read more
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- plays
- drama
29. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
By: Ntozake Shange
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more
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- poetry
- race
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
30. Stoning Mary
By: debbie tucker green
3.06
Format: 73 pages, Paperback
Mysterious while compelling, bewildering while intoxicating, Stoning Mary is a mix of Caryl Churchi… read more
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- theatre
- plays
- drama
31. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- race
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
