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The Century Cycle Series

10 primary works • 11 total works
Wilson's ten-play cycle about the African-American experience across the 20th century, focused in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Book 1

Gem of the Ocean
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4.13 · 1845 Ratings · 183 Reviews · published 2003 · 8 editions
Gem of the Ocean is the play that begins it all. S…

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    Book 2

    Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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    3.96     · 3569 Ratings · 232 Reviews · published 1988 · 19 editions
    When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh b…

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    Book 3

    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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    4.00     · 4209 Ratings · 323 Reviews · published 1984 · 22 editions
    The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording…

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    Book 4

    The Piano Lesson
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    3.82     · 10365 Ratings · 606 Reviews · published 1990 · 18 editions
    August Wilson has already given the American theat…

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    Book 5

    Seven Guitars
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    3.85     · 1351 Ratings · 138 Reviews · published 1996 · 16 editions
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Pi…

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    Book 6

    Fences
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    3.89     · 30716 Ratings · 2329 Reviews · published 1986 · 53 editions
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Ton…

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    Book 7

    Two Trains Running
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    4.04     · 1241 Ratings · 130 Reviews · published 1993 · 10 editions
    August Wilson surged to the forefront of American …

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    Book 8

    Jitney
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    4.10     · 1159 Ratings · 121 Reviews · published 2001 · 24 editions
    Set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, an…

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    Book 9

    King Hedley II
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    3.96     · 760 Ratings · 82 Reviews · published 2005 · 10 editions
    “Wilson’s melody here is the mournful sound of wha…

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    Book 10

    Radio Golf
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    3.95     · 885 Ratings · 99 Reviews · published 2005 · 12 editions
    “The concluding work in one of the most ambitious …

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    Book 1-10

    The Century Cycle
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    4.75     · 77 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2007 · 5 editions

    Series introduction by John Lahr with individual v…

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