The library now has 3 Amazon Kindles for checkout!

Kindles may be checked out for 3 days and can be renewed.

Kindles 1 and 3 are loaded with plays and have identical content – plays that are being used in Theatre courses, that were recommended by Theatre faculty, or that were requested by students who were writing papers on the play.

Plays currently on Kindles 1 and 3:

Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen

Pygmalion / Bernard Shaw

Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett

Three sisters / Anton Chekhov

Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller

Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello

Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand

The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov

Miss Julie and other plays / August Strindberg

A doll’s house / Henrik Ibsen

The country wife / William Wycherley

Erdgeist (Earth-spirit) / Wedekind

Tartuffe or, the hypocrite / Moliere

The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe

Lysistrata / Aristophanes

Uncle Vanya / Anton Chekhov

Long day’s journal into night / Eugene O’Neill

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard

Doubt / John Patrick Shanley

13 by Shanley

The clean house and other plays / Sarah Ruhl

Dead man’s cell phone / Sarah Ruhl

August / Tracy Letts

The full Monty / Terrence McNally

Rabbit hole / David Lindsay-Abaire

Spring’s awakening / Frank Wedekind

Playboy of the western world / J.M. Synge

Pandora’s box / Wedekind

Kindle 2 is loaded with classic novels. These are novels that have been heavily used in our library or were on the syllabi of English courses.

Books currently on Kindle 2:

Animal farm : a fairy story / George Orwell

At fault / Kate Chopin

The awakening and selected short stories / Kate Chopin

Brave new world / Aldous Huxley

Clarissa Harlowe / Samuel Richardson

Complete poetical works / Percy Bysshe Shelley

The complete adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain

A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole

The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri

Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman)

The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gulliver’s travels / Jonathan Swift

Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte

The jungle / Upton Sinclair

The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe

The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Songs of innocence and experience / William Blake

Summa Theologica, Part I-II / St. Thomas Aquinas

A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens

The turn of the screw / Henry James

Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte

Plays and novels purchased for the Kindles will need to be plays or novels that our library would normally purchase (so not the latest bestseller). If you would like to request that the library purchase a play or novel for one of the Kindles, you can use the library’s Request for Purchase form (and request a Kindle book) or contact Laurie Phillips at phillips@loyno.edu.

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