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9 best books like Complete Works, Vol. 1: The Birthday Party / The Room / The Dumb Waiter / A Slight Ache / A Night Out / The Black and White / The Examination (Harold Pinter): The Invention of Morel, The Driver's Seat, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!, Mother Courage and Her Children, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Complete Novels, The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Complete Dramatic Works, El cementerio marino

The Invention of Morel
AuthorAdolfo Bioy Casares
ISBN1590170571
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...
The Driver's Seat
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0141188340
Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to...
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN0385334230
“And how did we
then face the odds,
of man's rude slapstick,
yes, and God's?
Quite at home and unafraid,
Thank-you,
in a game
our dreams remade.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!



My 15-ear-old son broke the screen on his iPhone...
Mother Courage and Her Children
AuthorBertolt Brecht
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
AuthorPeter Handke
ISBN1590170199
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of...
The Complete Novels
AuthorFlann O'Brien
ISBN0307267490
Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.

O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant...
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
AuthorMary Lefkowitz
ISBN0812993004
A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world's most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King

Featuring translations by Emily Wilson,...
The Complete Dramatic Works
AuthorSamuel Beckett
ISBN0571144861
I am somewhat tempted, at the risk of being highly pretentious, to right a Beckett-style to review to this Beckett compendium. Fortunately, I'm not sure I really have the knack, thus sparing me from the absurdity.

I have given this two stars. I'm not sure why because I absolutely love Beckett,...
El cementerio marino
AuthorPaul Valéry
ISBN8420672742
Fruto de un largo periodo de introspección y de madura reflexión, pocas obras líricas han alcanzado la repercusión e influencia de El cementerio marino, que tras su publicación en 1920 no tardó en convertirse en uno de los puntos de referencia obligados de la literatura del siglo XX.

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