Paradise Lost
£1.99Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall, narrated in large part by its most charismatic and persuasive character: Satan.
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Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall, narrated in large part by its most charismatic and persuasive character: Satan.

A married woman’s affair with a dashing officer scandalises St Petersburg society and sets her on a collision course with ruin.

A New Orleans wife and mother chafes against the roles expected of her and reaches for an independence her world isn’t ready to grant.

A comic, digressive attempt at autobiography that keeps failing to get to its own subject’s birth — one of the first great experimental novels.

A horse narrates his own life, from a happy country foalhood to the brutal realities of Victorian working animals.

Plato’s Socrates and friends debate what justice actually is, and design an ideal city-state to find out.

A band of pilgrims to Canterbury pass the journey telling stories — bawdy, pious, and everything between — in Chaucer’s Middle English classic.

Booker T. Washington traces his path from enslaved child to founder of the Tuskegee Institute, arguing that education and self-reliance were the routes to Black advancement.

Rousseau’s unusually candid memoir of his own flaws, humiliations, and formative experiences, one of the first true confessional autobiographies.

Two very different women, one scheming and one saintly, navigate Regency society without a single hero to root for — Thackeray’s ‘novel without a hero’.

A giant helmet falls from nowhere and crushes a prince on his wedding day, opening the novel widely credited with inventing the Gothic genre.

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

A miserly old man is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve and shown what his life has cost him — and what it could still become.

Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse fancies herself a matchmaker — and gets nearly everyone’s romantic life wrong before her own.

Alice steps through a mirror into a chess-board world of talking flowers, twin brothers, and a very confusing Red Queen.

The founding text of modern economics, explaining how markets, labour, and self-interest build the wealth of nations.