Persuasion
£1.99Eight years after breaking off her engagement, Anne Elliot gets a second chance at love when Captain Wentworth returns, richer and unmarried.
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Democracy in America (Volume 1)
£1.99A young French aristocrat tours 1830s America and comes away astonished, and worried, by the strange new machinery of equality and self-government.
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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 Wind in the Willows
£0.99Mole, Rat, Badger, and the incorrigible Mr Toad share riverbank adventures in one of the gentlest books ever written.
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Carmilla
£1.99A 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.
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The Scarlet Letter
£1.99In Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne is condemned to wear a scarlet ‘A’ for adultery, while the true father of her child hides in plain sight.
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
£2.99William James surveys mysticism, conversion, and religious ecstasy across faiths, treating spiritual experience as a psychological phenomenon worth taking seriously.
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Madame Bovary
£2.99A doctor’s wife drowns her boredom in affairs and debt in provincial France, in the novel whose frankness about adultery put Flaubert on trial for obscenity.
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Nights with Uncle Remus
£1.99Br’er Rabbit outwits Br’er Fox again and again in this landmark collection of African-American folk tales, framed as stories told by a former slave to a plantation owner’s son.
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As a Man Thinketh
£0.99A slim, hugely influential tract arguing that character and circumstance are shaped by habitual thought — the proto-self-help book that launched a genre.
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Common Sense
£0.99Paine’s plain-spoken pamphlet arguing for American independence sold hundreds of thousands of copies and helped turn colonial grumbling into revolution.
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
£1.99A young woman’s life is destroyed by one night’s crime and the hypocrisy of the men who judge her for it, in Hardy’s bleakest tragedy.
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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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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Volume 1)
£1.99Locke argues that the mind at birth is a blank slate, filled in only by experience — a claim that reshaped centuries of thinking about human nature.
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The Communist Manifesto
£0.99Marx and Engels’s incendiary call to workers to overthrow capitalism, one of the most influential and consequential political pamphlets ever written.
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On War
£2.99Clausewitz’s unfinished but hugely influential theory of warfare as an extension of politics, still required reading at military academies two centuries later.
