Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
£0.99Stevenson hikes through the French mountains with a stubborn donkey for company, in the travelogue that helped invent recreational hiking as a pastime.
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
£0.99Darwin’s brief, private memoir, written for his children and never intended for publication, reflecting candidly on his own career, faith, and character.
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Character
£1.99Samuel Smiles follows up his bestseller Self-Help with more case studies arguing that duty, work, and courage build character better than wealth or birth ever could.
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Micrographia
£1.99Robert 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’.
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Eugénie Grandet
£1.99A miser’s devotion to gold slowly destroys his devoted daughter’s chance at happiness, in Balzac’s study of greed within a single Loire Valley household.
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Germinal
£2.99A desperate miners’ strike in northern France spirals into violence and starvation, in Zola’s brutal, still-shocking portrait of industrial poverty.
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Barchester Towers
£1.99A quiet cathedral town is thrown into an uproar of petty rivalries and social climbing when a new bishop’s chaplain arrives.
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Tartuffe
£0.99A 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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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
£0.99An orphaned New England girl is sent to live with two stern aunts and gradually thaws their household with her irrepressible spirit.
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Twenty Years at Hull-House
£1.99Jane Addams recounts founding Hull House, a settlement house that brought healthcare, education, and childcare to Chicago’s immigrant poor.
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My First Summer in the Sierra
£1.99John 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.
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The Green Fairy Book
£1.99The third of Andrew Lang’s fairy books, drawing on Grimm, Norse legend, and Madame d’Aulnoy for another set of tales collected from across the world.
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The Chemical History of a Candle
£0.99Michael Faraday’s famous Christmas lecture uses a burning candle to introduce children to chemistry, combustion, and the invisible forces holding matter together.
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The Diary of a Nobody
£1.99A pompous, oblivious London clerk records his daily trivia and minor humiliations in the deadpan comic diary that defined an entire British archetype.
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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
£1.99Leprechauns, banshees, and the fairy folk of the Irish and Scottish countryside, collected from oral tradition before they could be lost.
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Principles of Geology: or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology
£2.99Lyell’s argument that the Earth was shaped by slow, ongoing natural processes rather than sudden catastrophes — a book that directly inspired Darwin.
