The Tao Te Ching
£0.99Lao Tzu’s foundational text of Taoism, teaching that the wisest way to live is in effortless harmony with the natural flow of things.
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North and South
£1.99A southern gentlewoman relocates to a grim industrial mill town and clashes with a proud, self-made factory owner.
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
£1.99A married man and a married woman drift into an affair during a seaside holiday, in Chekhov’s quiet, devastating study of love without a happy ending available to it.
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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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A Little Princess
£1.99A wealthy schoolgirl is reduced to servant status when her father is presumed dead, but refuses to stop acting like a princess.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
£1.99Independent farmer Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three very different men, with consequences none of them see coming.
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The Social Contract
£1.99Rousseau argues that legitimate political authority comes only from a contract among free citizens, laying philosophical groundwork for the French Revolution.
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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.
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Flatland
£0.99A two-dimensional square encounters a visitor from the third dimension and has his entire understanding of reality shattered, in a sly satire of Victorian society and a genuine introduction to higher dimensions.
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The Imitation of Christ
£0.99A medieval monk’s guide to humility, simplicity, and inner life, one of the most widely translated devotional texts in Christian history.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
£0.99A visitor to a decaying mansion watches his old friend, his friend’s twin sister, and the house itself collapse together into ruin.
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Lord Jim
£1.99A young officer abandons a sinking ship full of pilgrims and spends the rest of his life trying to outrun the shame of it.
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Dead Souls
£1.99A con man tours provincial Russia buying up the paperwork of dead serfs, in Gogol’s savage, funny portrait of a nation’s bureaucracy and vanity.
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The Prose Edda
£1.99Snorri Sturluson’s 13th-century guide to Norse mythology, the source for most of what we know about Odin, Thor, and the end of the world at Ragnarök.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
£0.99An early and forceful argument that women’s apparent inferiority is a product of denied education, not nature.
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The Analects of Confucius
£0.99Confucius’s core teachings on ethics, family, and good governance, compiled by his students and foundational to Chinese thought for over two thousand years.
