Candide (Audiobook)
£1.99A naive young optimist is battered by earthquakes, war, and the Inquisition while insisting this is still ‘the best of all possible worlds,’ in Voltaire’s savage satire.
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Dead Souls (Audiobook)
£3.99A con man tours provincial Russia buying up the paperwork of dead serfs, in Gogol’s savage, funny portrait of a nation’s bureaucracy and vanity.
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Father Goriot (Audiobook)
£3.99A retired merchant bankrupts himself supporting his two ungrateful daughters’ climb into Parisian high society, in Balzac’s tragedy of parental love.
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Fathers and Sons (Audiobook)
£2.99A young nihilist’s visit home exposes the widening gulf between Russia’s old aristocracy and its restless, radical youth.
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Madame Bovary (Audiobook)
£3.99A doctor’s wife drowns her boredom in affairs and debt in provincial France, in the novel whose frankness about adultery put Flaubert on trial for obscenity.
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Notes from the Underground (Audiobook)
£2.99An embittered, isolated civil servant rages against reason, progress, and other people from his cellar in Dostoyevsky’s founding text of existentialist fiction.
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Tartuffe (Audiobook)
£1.99A pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy household and nearly makes off with the wife, the daughter, and the family fortune, in Molière’s most notorious comedy.
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The Idiot
£2.99A saintly, epileptic prince returns to St Petersburg society and is destroyed by the greed and passion of everyone around him.
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Notes from the Underground
£1.99An embittered, isolated civil servant rages against reason, progress, and other people from his cellar in Dostoyevsky’s founding text of existentialist fiction.
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Madame Bovary
£2.99A doctor’s wife drowns her boredom in affairs and debt in provincial France, in the novel whose frankness about adultery put Flaubert on trial for obscenity.
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Candide
£0.99A naive young optimist is battered by earthquakes, war, and the Inquisition while insisting this is still ‘the best of all possible worlds,’ in Voltaire’s savage satire.
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
£1.99A married man and a married woman drift into an affair during a seaside holiday, in Chekhov’s quiet, devastating study of love without a happy ending available to it.
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The Social Contract
£1.99Rousseau argues that legitimate political authority comes only from a contract among free citizens, laying philosophical groundwork for the French Revolution.
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Dead Souls
£1.99A con man tours provincial Russia buying up the paperwork of dead serfs, in Gogol’s savage, funny portrait of a nation’s bureaucracy and vanity.
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The Red and the Black
£2.99An ambitious young man fakes religious devotion to climb Restoration-era French society, in Stendhal’s cynical dissection of hypocrisy and class.
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Father Goriot
£1.99A retired merchant bankrupts himself supporting his two ungrateful daughters’ climb into Parisian high society, in Balzac’s tragedy of parental love.
