Far from the Madding Crowd
£1.99Independent farmer Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three very different men, with consequences none of them see coming.
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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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Plutarch’s Lives (Volume 1)
£1.99Plutarch pairs Greek and Roman statesmen and generals in biographical sketches that shaped how the West understood its own history for two thousand years.
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Flatland
£0.99A two-dimensional square encounters a visitor from the third dimension and has his entire understanding of reality shattered, in a sly satire of Victorian society and a genuine introduction to higher dimensions.
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The Imitation of Christ
£0.99A medieval monk’s guide to humility, simplicity, and inner life, one of the most widely translated devotional texts in Christian history.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
£0.99A visitor to a decaying mansion watches his old friend, his friend’s twin sister, and the house itself collapse together into ruin.
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Lord Jim
£1.99A young officer abandons a sinking ship full of pilgrims and spends the rest of his life trying to outrun the shame of it.
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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 Prose Edda
£1.99Snorri Sturluson’s 13th-century guide to Norse mythology, the source for most of what we know about Odin, Thor, and the end of the world at Ragnarök.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
£0.99An early and forceful argument that women’s apparent inferiority is a product of denied education, not nature.
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The Analects of Confucius
£0.99Confucius’s core teachings on ethics, family, and good governance, compiled by his students and foundational to Chinese thought for over two thousand years.
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Self-Help
£1.99Smiles’s original bestseller of Victorian self-improvement, profiling inventors and engineers who rose through nothing but persistence and hard work.
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The Blue Fairy Book
£1.99Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and dozens of other tales collected from across Europe, in the first and most famous of Andrew Lang’s twelve rainbow-coloured fairy books.
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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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The Voyage of the Beagle
£1.99A young naturalist circles the globe aboard HMS Beagle, gathering the observations of finches, fossils, and islands that would later become the theory of evolution.
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A Tramp Abroad
£1.99Twain wanders Germany and Switzerland on foot, mocking German grammar, Alpine tourism, and his own travelling companions along the way.
