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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee · 242 pages
George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in the
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
Eugene Ionesco · 141 pages
A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.
Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder · 401 pages
From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume. This omnibus edition brings together Wilder's three best-known plays: ***Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker [The Merchant of Yonkers].*** In includes a ***preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.*** ***Our Town,*
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Luigi Pirandello · 205 pages
Old Times
Harold Pinter · 75 pages
Like Pinter's earlier plays. Pinter deals with bare essentials. There are only three characters -- a man named Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Anna, a friend of Kate's whom they have not seen in 20 years. Beneath the surface of their taut, witty conversation lurks suggestions of darkness, until the present is overwhelmed with intimations of some frightening past.
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
Vladimir Mayakovsky · 317 pages
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht · 112 pages
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare · 214 pages
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard · 126 pages
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde · 1,216 pages
A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
Arthur Miller · 86 pages
In A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller explores the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate. Eddie Carbone is a Brooklyn longshoreman, a hard-working man whose life has been soothingly predictable. He hasn't counted on the arrival of two of his wife's relatives, illegal immigrants from Italy; nor has he recognized his true feelings for his beautiful niece, C
Caligula and Three Other Plays
Albert Camus · 302 pages
CALIGULA, an attractive prince, upon the death of his sister and mistress, tries, through murder and the systematic perversion of all values, to practice a liberty that he will eventually discover not to be the right one. THE MISUNDERSTANDING is about a son who expects to be recognized without having to declare his name and who is killed by his mother and his sister as the result of the misunderst
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
Tennessee Williams · 336 pages
La Ronde
Arthur Schnitzler
First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Schnitzler's play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate best-seller, scandalized Viennese society, and a year later was censored. Schnitzler was accused of pornography and worse. By choosing charac
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
George Bernard Shaw · 459 pages
The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman · 92 pages
A serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, the rumor soon turns to scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been