7 best-selling read for school books like Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge

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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…

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1. Cathleen ni Houlihan

By: W.B. Yeats

3.57

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Representative British Dramas Victorian and Moder… read more

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  • classics
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama
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2. Spreading the News

By: Lady Gregory , William-Alan Landes

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama
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3. The Chairs

By: Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp

3.85

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered st… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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4. 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

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

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Juno and the Paycock

By: Seán O'Casey

3.23

Format: 403 pages,

The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama
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7. 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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  • theatre
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  • 20th century
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"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

"Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

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8. 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
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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9. 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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  • school
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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

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10. 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

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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11. Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays

By: Derek Walcott

4.21

Format: 288 pages,

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  • plays
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  • drama
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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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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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13. Vinegar Tom

By: Caryl Churchill

3.36

Format: 317 pages,

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
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14. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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15. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama

16. 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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17. 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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18. A Tempest

By: Aimé Césaire , Richard Miller

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Cesaire's rich and insightful adaptation of The Tempestdraws on contemporary Caribbean society, the… read more

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19. 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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20. The Rape of the Lock

By: Alexander Pope

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more

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21. The Rising of the Moon

By: Lady Gregory , William-Alan Landes

3.60

Format: None pages,

The Rising of the Moon is a play by Augusta, Lady Gregory. It is a political play which examines An… read more

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22. Krapp's Last Tape

By: Samuel Beckett

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

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23. John Bull's Other Island

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Can you ever really go home again? What if you bring a friend and he is welcomed like a favorite so… read more

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24. Samson Agonistes

By: John Milton , None

4.24

Format: None pages,

A tragedy by John Milton, it is considered the greatest English drama based on the Greek model and … read more

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25. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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26. 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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27. The Real Thing

By: Tom Stoppard

4.16

Format: 200 pages,

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28. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

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"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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29. Puck's Legacy

By: Katie Hall-May

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dusty lights of a deserted theatre a bored young woman makes a desperate decision, and the l… read more

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"Secrets breed other secrets. That’s how they work."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"Extremism, by its very nature, must always go to its extreme."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"I would give anything to hear him say my name one more time. And anything not to."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"It’s all just coloured water. Of course it is. Don’t you want to taste something real?"

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

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30. 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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  • read for school
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31. 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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14 must-read fiction books like Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge

Transform Your Habits

Cathleen ni Houlihan

W.B. Yeats

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Spreading the News

Lady Gregory , William-Alan Landes

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Chairs

Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Arms and the Man

George Bernard Shaw

4.06

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14 must-read fiction books like Burned Out by Dean Mafako

Transform Your Habits

J.B.: A Play in Verse

Archibald MacLeish

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea

J.M. Synge

2.70

Transform Your Habits

The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic

Wendy Wasserstein

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Four Major Plays, Vol. 1: A Doll House / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen , Rolf Fjelde

3.93

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