My Bondage and My Freedom
£1.99Douglass’s fuller, angrier second memoir, written after achieving freedom and fame, revisiting his enslavement with a clarity his first book couldn’t risk.
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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.

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.