14 Top plays books like The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

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The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo…

"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

If you liked the plays plot in The Homecoming by Harold Pinter , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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 Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"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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2. 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 Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
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3. Dangling Man

By: Salman Rushdie , Saul Bellow

3.51

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Take a man waiting - waiting between the two worlds of civilian life and the army, suspended betwee… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Dangling Man book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • nobel prize
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
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4. 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

Similar categories in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • literature
  • plays
  • theatre
  • fiction
"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

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5. The Cocktail Party

By: T.S. Eliot

3.74

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary Wes… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"There's no memory you can wrap in camphor But the moths will get in."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"What you've been living on is an image of Celia Which you made for yourself, to meet your own needs."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

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6. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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7. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Kane's Blasted book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
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8. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

9. Buried Child

By: Sam Shepard

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis… read more

Similar categories in Sam Shepard's Buried Child book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Vinegar Tom

By: Caryl Churchill

3.36

Format: 317 pages,

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Similar categories in Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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11. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's Endgame book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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12. 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

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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13. Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more

Similar categories in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

14. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

Similar categories in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • nobel prize
  • classics
  • school
  • british literature
  • literature
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

15. True West

By: Sam Shepard

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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16. The Reluctant Landlady

By: Bernadette Strachan

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. 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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18. Translations

By: Brian Friel

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile … read more

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19. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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20. The Hairy Ape

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.75

Format: None pages,

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was a Nobel prize winning American playwright. More than any o… read more

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21. Cloud 9

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, ho… read more

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22. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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23. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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24. Saint Joan

By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence , Imogen Stubbs

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the he… read more

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25. Far Away

By: Caryl Churchill

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line." - Village Voice "A ma… read more

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26. My Sister in This House

By: Wendy Kesselman

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Se… read more

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27. 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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28. Glengarry Glen Ross

By: David Mamet

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more

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

29. 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 Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

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

30. 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 Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • 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

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31. Everyman (Faber Drama)

By: Carol Ann Duffy

3.96

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. Forced to abandon the lif… read more

Similar categories in Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman (Faber Drama) book and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

16 Best fiction books like The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Dangling Man

Salman Rushdie , Saul Bellow

3.51

Transform Your Habits

The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

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14 best-selling fiction books like Buried Child by Sam Shepard

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

All My Sons

Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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