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The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsRevised from the rather long original complete works of Shakespeare, this abridged version is written by three Americans, with no qualifications worth speaking of. The playtext is reproduced here with footnotes which will be of no help to anyone and a letter from the authors to the Queen... -
![The Complete Yes Prime Minister by Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay]()
The Complete Yes Prime Minister by Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPresented in the form of diaries, official documents, and letters, rather than simply transcribed scripts, this book is a companion to the successful BBC series, "Yes Prime Minister... -
![Diary ng Panget by HaveYouSeenThisGirL]()
Diary ng Panget by HaveYouSeenThisGirL
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMahirap at panget si Girl tapos magnet siya ng mga poging mayayaman na boys? YES! Cliché? YES! So what makes this book special? This story has made a lot of people online laugh, as in hagalpak talaga with matching headbang pa! This is Eya's diary, a girl who believes she's ugly and will meet Cross Sandford, the most annoying nilalang ever... -
![Holt by Scarlett Avery]()
Holt by Scarlett Avery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s a new client, so how did we go from hello to Fifty Shades of Grey in a New York minute?The first time I met him, his arresting blue eyes were enough to make me lose my head. But of course, I kept it together.I’m a professional and fooling around with a client is a recipe for disaster.Holt Christensen is off limits... -
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![Noises Off by Michael Frayn]()
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNoises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award—winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage “drama” that develops during Nothing On’s final rehearsal and tour... -
![বহুব্রীহি by Humayun Ahmed]()
বহুব্রীহি by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsভূমিকাবহুব্রীহি নাম দিয়ে একটি টিভি সিরিয়েল লিখেছিলাম, এই বহুব্রীহিকে সেই টিভি সিরিয়েলের উপন্যাস রূপান্তর মনে করা ঠিক হবে না। আমি যা করেছি তা হচ্ছে মূল কাঠামো ঠিক রেখে একটা মজার উপন্যাস লেখার চেষ্টা। কিন্তু অন্য ধরনের কথা হাসি তামশা মাঝখানে আছে। আশা করছি সেই সব কথা রঙ্গ রসিকতায় পুরোপুরি ঢাকা পড়বে না। কিছু না থেকেই যাবে।পাঠক পাঠিকাদের- আমার এই উপন্যাস টিভি সিরিয়েলের সঙ্গে মিলিয়ে পড়লে হোঁচট... -
![Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein]()
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, PlaysTorch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s... -
![All in the Timing by David Ives]()
All in the Timing by David Ives
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world according to David Ives is a very odd place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet... -
![Played by the Rockstar: A laugh out loud rom com escape! by Christina Hovland]()
Played by the Rockstar: A laugh out loud rom com escape! by Christina Hovland
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA rock star walks into a bar…Certified behavioral counselor (and former band groupie) Becca Forrester needs a break. Taking a leave of absence from her job, she moves into the apartment over her parents’ garage, and clinches a gig waitressing at a dive bar known for bringing in big name musicians.Cedric “Linx” Lincoln is a certified rock star... -
![The Collected Plays, Vol. 1 by Neil Simon]()
The Collected Plays, Vol. 1 by Neil Simon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis first volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon contains the triumphs that put his unique brand of comic genius on the American stage, and made him the most successful playwright of his generation... -
![The Complete Plays by Joe Orton]()
The Complete Plays by Joe Orton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history and was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward... -
![Milea: Suara Dari Dilan by Pidi Baiq]()
Milea: Suara Dari Dilan by Pidi Baiq
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“Dilan memberi penggambaran lain dari sebuah penaklukan cinta & bagaimana indahnya cinta sederhana anak zaman dahulu.” @refaniris“Cuma satu yang kuinginkan, aku ingin cowok seperti Dilan.” @_SLovaFC“Dilan brengsek! Dia selalu tahu caranya menjadi pusat perhatian, bahkan ketika jadi buku, setiap serinya selalu ditunggu.” @Tedy_Pensil“Membaca Dilan itu seperti jatuh cinta lagi, lagi, dan lagi... -
![Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 2 by Yuki Yaku]()
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 2 by Yuki Yaku
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFumiya Tomozaki's opinion on the game of "real life" has been changing ever since he met Aoi Hinami and began training with her-it may not be the greatest, but at least it doesn't suck. Meanwhile, student elections are coming up, and obviously, Hinami will be running for student council president... -
![The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh]()
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative aging mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific... -
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![Harvey by Mary Chase]()
Harvey by Mary Chase
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend Harvey, a six and a half foot rabbit, to guests at a dinner party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family, from future embarrassment... -
![The Odd Couple by Neil Simon, Nathan Lane]()
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon, Nathan Lane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsComedy / 6m, 2f / Int. This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Unger who has just been separated from his wife... -
![The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood by Gill Sims]()
The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood by Gill Sims
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s time for a w(h)ine‘Oh, for f*ck’s sake’ muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could find for a no effort dinner. The children continued to fight behind her... -
![Posh by Laura Wade]()
Posh by Laura Wade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn an oak-paneled room in Oxford, ten young punks with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and good wine. But this isn't just a jolly: they're planning a revolution.Welcome to the Riot Club... -
![Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts by Noël Coward]()
Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts by Noël Coward
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![Rumors: A Farce by Neil Simon]()
Rumors: A Farce by Neil Simon
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKen and Chris have found their host Charley, a prominent Government official, in his bedroom, too dazed to speak, with a bullet wound in his ear lobe! Len and Claire arrive, themselves injured in a car crash, and are soon joined by Ernest and Cookie, Glenn and Cassie, each with their own problems... -
![Die Schule der Diktatoren by Erich Kästner]()
Die Schule der Diktatoren by Erich Kästner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsهذه مسرحيه، وإذا أردتم دقه الوصف فهى مأساه هزليه؛ انقلاب فاضل يزيح ديكتاتوريه فاسده من الطريق، ثم يقتلون المتمرد، وترسخ الديكتاتوريه الجديده أقدامها... -
![The Motherfucker With the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bobby Cannavale]()
The Motherfucker With the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bobby Cannavale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAddiction, pain, and explosive tempers are not exactly what you’d call the ingredients for a side-splitting comedy. Yet Steven Adly Guiguis has created a profane, hilarious masterpiece that earned a "hatful" of theatrical accolades in 2011, including a Drama Desk award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for Bobby Cannavale... -
![The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee]()
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThree-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat won every major award for best new play of the year: the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards... -
![The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOften called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound... -
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![Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon]()
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPaul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job... -
![The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn]()
The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWoven out of three monologues in what one reviewer called "a triple sonata of oppression and incomprehension" ( The Sunday Times , London), Wallace Shawn's new play is a masterful drama about the self, politics, and the pursuit of aesthetic subtleties in brutal times. The three characters are the eponymous designated mourner, Jack; his wife, Judy; and Judy's erudite father, Howard... -
![Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWhen a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist in Laughing Gas, the result is transatlantic mayhem at its funniest... -
![Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul]()
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. Fireflies, his first novel, published in 1970 and longlisted for the 'Lost Man Booker Award' in 2010, is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. The Khojas are Trinidad's most venerated Hindu family... -
![That Girl, Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Story by James Ramos]()
That Girl, Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Story by James Ramos
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED that geeky guys never get to date the pretty girls with permanent scowls.To Elliott Bennett, life is simple. It’s all parties, skateboarding, and arguing over who would win in a fight between Hulk and Superman with his friends. It’s his senior year, and he wants nothing more than to soak up his final year of freedom before real life begins... -
![Meet Clara Andrews by Lacey London]()
Meet Clara Andrews by Lacey London
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Clara Andrews a totally vacuous girl with a hangover... With a love of designer brands, a fantastic job at Suave, the latest big name to rock the shoe industry and the world’s greatest best friend, she thought she had it all. That is until a chance meeting introduces her to the most handsome man alive... -
![হিমু by Humayun Ahmed]()
হিমু by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsহিমু আমার প্রিয় চরিত্রের একটি। যখন হিমুকে নিয়ে কিছু লিখি- নিজেকে হিমু মনে হয়, একধরণের ঘোর অনুভব করি। এই ব্যাপারটা অন্য কোনো লেখার সময় তেমন করে ঘটে না। হিমুকে নিয়ে আমার প্রথম লেখা ময়ূরাক্ষি। ময়ূরাক্ষি লেখার সময় ব্যাপারটা প্রথম লক্ষ করি। দ্বিতীয়বার লিখলাম দরজার ওপাশে। তখনো একই ব্যাপার। কেন এরকম হয়? মানুষ হিসেবে আমি যুক্তিবাদী। হিমুর যুক্তিহীন, রহস্যময় জগৎ একজন যুক্তিবাদীকে কেন আকর্ষণ করবে? আমার... -
![Dorjar Opashe: দরজার ওপাশে by Humayun Ahmed]()
Dorjar Opashe: দরজার ওপাশে by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsফ্ল্যাপে লিখা কথাঃতার ডাক নাম হিমু। ভালো নাম হিমালয়। বাবা আগ্রহ করে হিলাময় নাম রেখেছিলেন যেন বড় হয়ে সে হিমালয়ের মতো হয়- বিশাল ও বিস্তৃত, কিন্তু ধরা ছোঁয়ার বাইরে নয়। হাত দিয়ে স্পর্শ করা যায়। ইচ্ছে করলে তিনি ছেলের নাম সমুদ্র রাখতে পারতেন। সমুদ্র বিশাল এবং বিস্তৃত। সমুদ্রকে হাত দিয় স্পর্শ করা যায়। তার চেয়েও বড় কথা, সমুদ্র আকাশের ছায়া পড়ে। কিন্তু তিনি সমুদ্র নাম না রেখে রাখলেন... -
![Tales of a Drama Queen by Lee Nichols]()
Tales of a Drama Queen by Lee Nichols
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter Elle Medina's three-year engagement spectacularly self-destructs, she flees home to Santa Barbara to heal and regroup. Determined to create a new life that is better for her than her old one, Elle decides she needs to: 1. Get a good job 2. Find a nice apartment 3. Find an adequate boyfriend. But this proves to be more challenging than she expected... -
![Welcome to My World by Miranda Dickinson]()
Welcome to My World by Miranda Dickinson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA travel agent who longs to travel. An intrepid explorer who just wants to find a place to call home. And a Big Idea that changes everything!. Close your eyes and imagine the world is your oyster! And now imagine never seeing it. Welcome to Harriet Langton's world. All her life she's dreamt of travelling the globe - fate always got in the way... -
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![The Tin Men by Michael Frayn]()
The Tin Men by Michael Frayn
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe William Morris Institute of Automation Research is working hard to simplify our lives by programming computers to carry out life’s routine tasks. Whether it’s resolving ethical dilemmas, writing pornographic novels, saying prayers, or watching sports, these automation experts are developing machines to handle it all, enabling us to enjoy more free time... -
![Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald]()
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Constance Ledbelly, a tweedy academic, has ghostwritten the papers of her mentor for years, when suddenly he announces he's marrying a rival... -
![The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith]()
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsZadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath"Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . -
![The Caretaker by Harold Pinter]()
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both The Caretaker and The Birthday Party... -
![The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter]()
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and provocative story of two hit men as they wait in a basement for their next assignment. Told through Pinter’s unmistakable wit and poignant pauses, “The Dumb Waiter” is recognized for its exceptional writing and subtle character development... -
![The Jane Austen Dating Agency: an uplifting romantic comedy by Fiona Woodifield]()
The Jane Austen Dating Agency: an uplifting romantic comedy by Fiona Woodifield
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDoes true romance really exist? Sophie Johnson is young, intelligent and attractive. So, when she lands the dream position of Sales Executive at a leading fashion magazine, it appears she has it all. But in reality, she hates her job, is sick of her controlling mother and is a dating disaster... -
![No Word From Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza]()
No Word From Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Gurb has assumed the form of Madonna and disappeared in Barcelona’s backstreets. His commanding officer and best friend has sent off in pursuit, scrupulously recording his observations of a human life in the city while munching through vast quantities of churros. No stone is left unturned, no danger too much, in the search for his old pal Gurb... -
![The Firebugs: A Morality Without a Moral by Max Frisch]()
The Firebugs: A Morality Without a Moral by Max Frisch
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is a subtle, brilliant, and often very funny parable with parallels to Hitler's assumption of power in Germany and, more generally, to the corrupting influence society can hold over us all... -
![Educating Rita by Willy Russell]()
Educating Rita by Willy Russell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'Educating Rita' portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education. It premiered in London, in 1980 and won the Society for West End Theatres (SWET) award for Best Comedy of the Year. It was made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters and won the 1983 BAFTA award for Best Film.Commentary and notes by Steve Lewis... -
![Tender Hooks by Moni Mohsin]()
Tender Hooks by Moni Mohsin
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Glamorous girly fiction evolves into Chanel-clad satire" India... -
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![Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel]()
Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O'Donnell has accepted his aunt's invitation to come to Philadelphia... -
![9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe]()
9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Penguin published What a Carve Up! in 1994, Jonathan Coe's lasting fame was assured. There followed a string of widely acclaimed novels that together chart the changing social fabric of Britain over the last thirty years. This publication brings together several uncollected pieces of fiction and non-fiction, some of which never before published in the UK, from the master of comedy and pathos... -
![Dear Miss Darcy by Laura Briggs, Sarah Burgess]()
Dear Miss Darcy by Laura Briggs, Sarah Burgess
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Darcy has it all: looks, charm, a successful career as a love columnist, and a connection to Jane Austen’s greatest love story. Being the descendant of Lizzie and Darcy, however, hasn’t guaranteed her a happy ending in love–in fact, Miss Darcy seems cursed by disaster and destined for a long and romantically-lonely life of solving love’s problems for others... -
![Oksimoron by Isman H. Suryaman]()
Oksimoron by Isman H. Suryaman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOksimoron: n Ling, frase yang terdiri dari dua unsur yang bertolak belakang. _______________________________ Alan dan Rine adalah pasangan muda yang berusaha membuktikan bahwa pernikahan bahagia bukanlah oksimoron. Konsekuensinya, mereka juga harus berjuang untuk menghadapi berbagai unsur bertolak belakang, seperti mertua dan kerukunan, tetangga dan kewarasan, hingga kehamilan dan aborsi... -
![Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsNew York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and join the likes of Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut... -
![The War of the Roses by Warren Adler]()
The War of the Roses by Warren Adler
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWarren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, "The War of the Roses" and "Random Hearts" were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. This is the book that became one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced...
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