Genre :: Drama (14 books)

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  #138

  Waiting for Godot

  by Samuel Beckett

  (11 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir ESTRAGON: (giving up..."

  

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  #198

  Six Characters in Search of an Author

  by Luigi Pirandello

  (4 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "When the audience arrives in the theater, the curtain is raised; and the stage, as normally in the daytime, is without wings or scenery and almost completely dark and empty."

  

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  #239

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

  by William Shakespeare

  (4 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "William Shakespeare's date of birth is not precisely known, but it probably preceded his baptism on April 26, 1564, in Stratfordon-Avon, by only a few days."

  

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  #256

  Hunger

  by Knut Hamsun

  (3 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set his mark upon him. . .Det var i den tid jeg gikk omkring og sultet i..."

  

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  #275

  Four Plays

  by Eugene Ionesco

  (3 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "The Bald Soprano: Anti-play Scene: A middle class English interior, with English armchairs."

  

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  #302

  Cider with Rosie

  by Laurie Lee

  (3 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began."

  

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  #321

  Hamlet

  by William Shakespeare

  (11 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "Act 1, Scene 1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels. Barnardo Who's there?"

  

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  #342

  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  (12 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."

  

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  #396

  King Lear

  by William Shakespeare

  (5 Reviews)

  51 Points

  "I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall."

  

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  #398

  Othello

  by William Shakespeare

  (6 Reviews)

  50 Points

  "Never tell me; I take it much unkindly That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this."

  

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