Jerusalem
By: Jez Butterworth
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun…
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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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- fiction
"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. Equus (Penguin Plays)
By: Peter Shaffer
3.91
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more
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- school
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"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)
3. Complete Plays
By: Sarah Kane , David Greig
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Kane's first play, Blasted, was staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1995 it was… read more
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- theatre
- fiction
- contemporary
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4. Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
3.71
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live… read more
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"Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dan…"-Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
5. 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
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- school
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6. Good Kings Bad Kings
By: Susan Nussbaum
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inside the halls of ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, we discover a place that … read more
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- fiction
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"Once I make a decision, I stick to it."-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings
"Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend."-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings
7. Our Country's Good
By: Timberlake Wertenbaker
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy… read more
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- theatre
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- school
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8. The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more
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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
9. Blasted
By: Sarah Kane
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more
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10. Black Watch
By: Gregory Burke
3.60
Format: 404 pages,
Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watchreveals what it means to be part of the … read more
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11. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
By: Sam Steiner
3.96
Format: None pages,
The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliv… read more
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12. Remainder
By: Tom McCarthy
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensatio… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. Trumpet
By: Jackie Kay
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate worki… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
14. The History Boys
By: Alan Bennett
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university… read more
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15. Jerusalem
By: Jez Butterworth
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun… read more
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- school
- humor
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16. Happy Days
By: Samuel Beckett
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more
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17. The Caretaker
By: Harold Pinter
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more
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- drama
18. Death and the King's Horseman: A Play
By: Wole Soyinka
3.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's … read more
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19. The Effect
By: Lucy Prebble
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more
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20. The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
By: Kei Miller
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of k… read more
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21. Hangmen
By: Martin McDonagh
4.05
Format: 371 pages,
In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best han… read more
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22. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
23. The Lieutenant of Inishmore
By: Martin McDonagh
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troublesin Northern Ireland aga… read more
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24. The Birthday Party
By: Harold Pinter
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more
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25. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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26. The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more
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27. The Dew Breaker
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--… read more
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28. The Duchess of Malfi
By: John Webster
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more
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29. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
30. England's Green
By: Zaffar Kunial
4.08
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more
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"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
31. Self-Portrait as Othello
By: Jason Allen-Paisant
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more
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