Plays Unpleasant
By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
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1. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
2. The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more
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"The fool supply was controlled..."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"...rose like cream to the top of milk."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"The flies have conquered the flypaper."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
3. The Home and the World
By: Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice
3.83
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakeni… read more
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"Mientras estemos en llamas, sepamos arder y bullir"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"জীবনটাকে কেঁদে ভাসিয়ে দেওয়ার চেয়ে হেসে উড়িয়ে দেওয়াই ভালো।"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"Hasta el océano de las lágrimas tiene otra orilla; si así no fuera, nadie habría llorado nunca"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold. While we are on fire let us seethe and boil."-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
4. Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Look at the Birdieis a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the … read more
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- classics
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5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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6. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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- 19th century
- victorian
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7. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
8. The Zoo Story
By: Edward Albee
3.90
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written… read more
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"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
9. Hedda Gabler
By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more
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10. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- fiction
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
11. The Woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more
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- 19th century
- victorian
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12. 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
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- theatre
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- plays
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13. 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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- classics
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14. The First and Second Discourses
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Roger D. Masters , Judith R. Masters
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text inclu… read more
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- classics
15. Plays Unpleasant
By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
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16. Selected Poems
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipie… read more
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- classics
- fiction
17. 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
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. 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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- 19th century
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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
20. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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- fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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25. Murphy
By: Samuel Beckett
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more
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26. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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27. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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28. The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Harley Quin, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seem… read more
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29. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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30. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
