A Modest Proposal
£0.99Swift’s savage satirical pamphlet proposes solving Irish poverty by eating the children of the poor — a joke sharp enough to still shock modern readers.
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
£1.99The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen — the original tales that made Hans Christian Andersen the world’s best-known writer of fairy stories.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
£1.99The abolitionist novel that galvanised a nation, following the enslaved Tom through the cruelty and occasional kindness of the antebellum South.
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Northanger Abbey
£1.99A gothic-novel-obsessed young woman’s overactive imagination gets her into trouble during a stay at a mysterious English abbey.
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
£0.99A disobedient rabbit sneaks into Mr McGregor’s garden and narrowly escapes ending up in a pie.
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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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Anna Karenina
£2.99A married woman’s affair with a dashing officer scandalises St Petersburg society and sets her on a collision course with ruin.
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
£1.99A New Orleans wife and mother chafes against the roles expected of her and reaches for an independence her world isn’t ready to grant.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
£1.99A comic, digressive attempt at autobiography that keeps failing to get to its own subject’s birth — one of the first great experimental novels.
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Black Beauty
£0.99A horse narrates his own life, from a happy country foalhood to the brutal realities of Victorian working animals.
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The Republic
£1.99Plato’s Socrates and friends debate what justice actually is, and design an ideal city-state to find out.
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The Canterbury Tales
£1.99A band of pilgrims to Canterbury pass the journey telling stories — bawdy, pious, and everything between — in Chaucer’s Middle English classic.
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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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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
£2.99Rousseau’s unusually candid memoir of his own flaws, humiliations, and formative experiences, one of the first true confessional autobiographies.
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Vanity Fair
£2.99Two very different women, one scheming and one saintly, navigate Regency society without a single hero to root for — Thackeray’s ‘novel without a hero’.
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The Castle of Otranto
£0.99A giant helmet falls from nowhere and crushes a prince on his wedding day, opening the novel widely credited with inventing the Gothic genre.
