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.
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The Divine Comedy
£2.99Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in the towering allegory of the medieval imagination.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
£0.99A superstitious schoolteacher courts the local heiress and is chased out of town by a headless horseman — or a rival in a clever costume.
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Anne of Green Gables
£1.99A talkative orphan sent to Prince Edward Island by mistake wins over her adoptive family with sheer force of imagination.
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The Secret Garden
£1.99An orphaned, sour-tempered girl discovers a locked, neglected garden and slowly brings it — and herself — back to life.
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Hamlet
£0.99A Danish prince feigns madness to avenge his murdered father, and talks himself into the most famous indecision in literature.
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Beyond Good and Evil
£1.99Nietzsche attacks conventional morality, truth, and philosophy itself, arguing that traditional values are just disguised expressions of power.
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The Yellow Wallpaper
£0.99A woman confined to a room for her ‘nervous condition’ becomes obsessed with the pattern in the wallpaper, and with what she sees moving behind it.
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Great Expectations
£2.99An orphan boy’s mysterious benefactor transforms his life, in Dickens’ sweeping tale of ambition, guilt, and the true meaning of being a gentleman.
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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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Aesop’s Fables
£0.99The tortoise and the hare, the boy who cried wolf, and dozens of other animal fables attributed to a Greek slave, still teaching morals 2,500 years later.
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Walden
£1.99Thoreau retreats to a cabin by a pond to live deliberately, and comes back with a case against the noisy, acquisitive pace of modern life.
