14 must-read fiction books like The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

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The Real Inspector Hound

By: Tom Stoppard

3.90

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Title: The Real Inspector Hound Binding: Paperback Author: TomStoppard Publisher: SamuelFrench

If you liked the fiction plot in The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Changeling

By: Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume Th… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • british literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Let me feel how thy pulses beat."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

Cover of La Cantatrice chauve by Eugène Ionesco

2. La Cantatrice chauve

By: Eugène Ionesco

3.76

Format: 149 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tout le monde la connaît. Peu peuvent l'expliquer. C'est ce que fait à merveille Emmanuel Jacquart,… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver."

-Eugène Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve

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3. 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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  • classics
  • theatre
  • 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

Cover of The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, Paula Vogel

4. The Skin of Our Teeth

By: Thornton Wilder , Paula Vogel

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

A timeless statement about human foibles . . . and human endurance, this beautiful new edition feat… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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5. The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea

By: J.M. Synge

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

The plays of John Millington Synge (1871-1909) are filled with the humors, sorrows, and dreams of t… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Death and the Maiden

By: Ariel Dorfman

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only rece… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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8. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. 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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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • comedy
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

Cover of The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr by Jess Winfield, None, Adam Long, Daniel Singer, None, Reduced Shakespeare Company

11. The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr

By: Jess Winfield , None , Adam Long , Daniel Singer , None , Reduced Shakespeare Company

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Revised from the rather long original complete works of Shakespeare, this abridged version is writt… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • comedy
  • drama

12. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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13. Ten Plays

By: Euripides , Moses Hadas , John Maclean

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about so… read more

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14. Krapp's Last Tape

By: Samuel Beckett

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

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16. The Real Inspector Hound

By: Tom Stoppard

3.90

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Title: The Real Inspector Hound Binding: Paperback Author: TomStoppard Publisher: SamuelFrench read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • british literature
  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • plays
  • comedy
  • drama

17. The Emperor Jones

By: Eugene O'Neill , None

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Brutus Jones, a former Pullman car porter wanted in the United States on two murder charges, has es… read more

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18. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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19. 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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  • fiction
"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

Cover of Wife For Sale by Tabita Gutu

20. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

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  • drama
Cover of Growing Up American: A Novel by Rafael Polo

21. Growing Up American: A Novel

By: Rafael Polo

4.29

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fi… read more

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"When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

14 best-selling drama books like The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

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The Changeling

Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

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La Cantatrice chauve

Eugène Ionesco

3.76

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The Cocktail Party

T.S. Eliot

3.74

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The Skin of Our Teeth

Thornton Wilder , Paula Vogel

3.90

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J.B.: A Play in Verse

Archibald MacLeish

3.69

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The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea

J.M. Synge

2.70

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

Wendy Wasserstein

5.00

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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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