The Art of War
£0.99A 2,500-year-old military treatise on strategy, deception, and knowing your enemy — still studied far beyond the battlefield.
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A 2,500-year-old military treatise on strategy, deception, and knowing your enemy — still studied far beyond the battlefield.

An aging gentleman convinces himself he’s a knight-errant and sets off with his squire Sancho Panza to tilt at windmills and right imaginary wrongs.

Darwin lays out the theory of evolution by natural selection, using the evidence he gathered to overturn how humanity understood itself.

An inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds humanity split into two very different, and very doomed, species.

A steamboat captain journeys up the Congo to retrieve the mysterious, revered, and increasingly unhinged Mr Kurtz.

Martian war machines land in the English countryside, and nothing humanity builds can stop them — except, in the end, the smallest thing.

A saintly, epileptic prince returns to St Petersburg society and is destroyed by the greed and passion of everyone around him.

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

A sprawling lawsuit over a disputed inheritance drags on for generations, ensnaring everyone connected to it in fog, delay, and ruin.

Whitman’s sprawling, self-published collection celebrating the body, democracy, and America in free verse that shocked its era.

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

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

A young French aristocrat tours 1830s America and comes away astonished, and worried, by the strange new machinery of equality and self-government.

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

Mole, Rat, Badger, and the incorrigible Mr Toad share riverbank adventures in one of the gentlest books ever written.

A lonely young woman befriends a mysterious new companion who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire, in the novella that predates and influenced Dracula.