Anabasis (Audiobook)
£2.99Xenophon’s firsthand account of ten thousand Greek mercenaries stranded deep in Persia, and their desperate march back to the sea.
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Micrographia (Audiobook)
£3.99Robert 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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On Liberty (Audiobook)
£2.99Mill’s landmark defence of individual freedom against the tyranny of both government and public opinion, still cited in free-speech arguments today.
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory (Audiobook)
£1.99Einstein explains his own theory of relativity in plain language, written for readers with a general scientific background rather than fellow physicists.
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Audiobook)
£2.99Booker 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.
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Utilitarianism (Audiobook)
£1.99Mill lays out the case for judging actions by their consequences, and for the greatest happiness of the greatest number, in the classic statement of utilitarian ethics.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
£1.99Douglass’s own account of his life in slavery and his escape to freedom, published to devastating effect in 1845 and still one of the most powerful documents of American history.
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The Anabasis of Alexander
£1.99Arrian’s campaign history follows Alexander the Great from Macedon to India, drawing on eyewitness accounts written by the general’s own officers.
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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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Anabasis
£1.99Xenophon’s firsthand account of ten thousand Greek mercenaries stranded deep in Persia, and their desperate march back to the sea.
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
£1.99Booker 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.
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On Liberty
£0.99Mill’s landmark defence of individual freedom against the tyranny of both government and public opinion, still cited in free-speech arguments today.
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
£2.99An Athenian general-turned-historian records the brutal, decades-long war between Athens and Sparta that he lived through and was exiled for losing a battle in.
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The History of Herodotus (Volume 1)
£1.99The ‘Father of History’ travels the ancient world recording the customs of Egypt, Persia, and Greece, and the wars between them — volume one of his sprawling account.
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Utilitarianism
£0.99Mill lays out the case for judging actions by their consequences, and for the greatest happiness of the greatest number, in the classic statement of utilitarian ethics.
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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.
