Meditations (Audiobook)
£2.99The private notebook of a Roman emperor, writing to himself about duty, mortality, and how to stay decent while running an empire.
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The private notebook of a Roman emperor, writing to himself about duty, mortality, and how to stay decent while running an empire.

A man who sold his soul for 150 extra years of life searches desperately for someone willing to take the bargain off his hands, in one of the last great Gothic novels.

Robert Hooke’s 1665 masterpiece of microscopy first showed the world plant cells, flea anatomy, and the surface of a needle — and coined the word ‘cell’.

A web of marriages, ambitions, and disappointments in a provincial English town, centred on idealistic Dorothea Brooke’s disastrous first marriage.

Douglass’s fuller, angrier second memoir, written after achieving freedom and fame, revisiting his enslavement with a clarity his first book couldn’t risk.

John Muir’s journal of a season shepherding sheep through the Sierra Nevada, and falling completely in love with the wilderness he’d go on to help protect.

Br’er Rabbit outwits Br’er Fox again and again in this landmark collection of African-American folk tales, framed as stories told by a former slave to a plantation owner’s son.

A southern gentlewoman relocates to a grim industrial mill town and clashes with a proud, self-made factory owner.

A gothic-novel-obsessed young woman’s overactive imagination gets her into trouble during a stay at a mysterious English abbey.

An embittered, isolated civil servant rages against reason, progress, and other people from his cellar in Dostoyevsky’s founding text of existentialist fiction.

An orphan escapes the workhouse only to fall in with a den of London pickpockets run by the cunning Fagin.

Mill’s landmark defence of individual freedom against the tyranny of both government and public opinion, still cited in free-speech arguments today.

Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall, narrated in large part by its most charismatic and persuasive character: Satan.

Eight years after breaking off her engagement, Anne Elliot gets a second chance at love when Captain Wentworth returns, richer and unmarried.

The boy who never grew up whisks the Darling children off to Neverland, where pirates, mermaids, and a jealous fairy await.

Elizabeth Bennet spars with the proud, wealthy Mr Darcy while her mother schemes to marry off five daughters in Regency England — the sharpest comedy of manners ever written.