Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
£0.99A Geatish hero crosses the sea to kill the monster Grendel, in the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
£1.99Captain Nemo pilots the submarine Nautilus through the world’s oceans, hunted as a menace and revered as a genius.
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
£2.99Written while dying of cancer to secure his family’s finances, Grant’s memoir of the Civil War is considered one of the finest ever written by a former head of state.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
£1.99Nietzsche’s prophet descends from the mountains to preach the Übermensch and the death of God, in dense, poetic parables.
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The Jungle Book
£1.99Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, learns the Law of the Jungle from Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.
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Kidnapped
£1.99Cheated of his inheritance and kidnapped onto a ship bound for slavery, young David Balfour fights his way home across the Scottish Highlands.
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David Copperfield
£2.99Dickens’ most autobiographical novel follows David from a difficult childhood through hardship, friendship, and eventual success.
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters (Volume 1)
£1.99Vasari’s gossipy, opinionated biographies of Italian Renaissance artists invented art history and art criticism in the same stroke, starting with Cimabue and Giotto.
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Robinson Crusoe
£1.99Shipwrecked and alone for decades, Robinson Crusoe rebuilds civilisation from scratch on a desert island.
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The Call of the Wild
£0.99A domesticated dog is stolen and sold into the brutal world of Yukon sled-dog teams, where he rediscovers his wild ancestry.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
£0.99Two bachelors invent fictional alter egos to escape social obligations, until their double lives collide in Wilde’s brightest comedy.
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The Essays of Francis Bacon
£1.99Bacon’s short, quotable essays on truth, ambition, friendship, and dozens of other subjects, written in prose so dense with observation it’s still mined for quotations.
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The Prince
£0.99Machiavelli’s blunt, unsentimental manual on acquiring and keeping political power — still the handbook nobody admits to reading.
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Volume 1)
£1.99A Venetian merchant’s account of two decades travelling the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan, which introduced Europe to the wonders of the East.
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Les Misérables
£2.99An ex-convict spends his life fleeing his past and doing good by stealth, pursued relentlessly by a police inspector who cannot forgive.
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White Fang
£0.99A wild wolf-dog is gradually tamed by human kindness, in London’s mirror image to The Call of the Wild.
