Self-Help
£1.99Smiles’s original bestseller of Victorian self-improvement, profiling inventors and engineers who rose through nothing but persistence and hard work.
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The Blue Fairy Book
£1.99Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and dozens of other tales collected from across Europe, in the first and most famous of Andrew Lang’s twelve rainbow-coloured fairy books.
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The Red and the Black
£2.99An ambitious young man fakes religious devotion to climb Restoration-era French society, in Stendhal’s cynical dissection of hypocrisy and class.
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The Voyage of the Beagle
£1.99A young naturalist circles the globe aboard HMS Beagle, gathering the observations of finches, fossils, and islands that would later become the theory of evolution.
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A Tramp Abroad
£1.99Twain wanders Germany and Switzerland on foot, mocking German grammar, Alpine tourism, and his own travelling companions along the way.
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Father Goriot
£1.99A retired merchant bankrupts himself supporting his two ungrateful daughters’ climb into Parisian high society, in Balzac’s tragedy of parental love.
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The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays
£1.99An aristocratic family must sell the cherry orchard that defines them, in Chekhov’s bittersweet final play about a world quietly ending.
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Eugene Onegin
£1.99A bored aristocrat rejects a young woman’s love, kills his best friend in a pointless duel, and years later realises exactly what he threw away — told entirely in verse.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
£1.99A foppish English aristocrat secretly rescues French nobles from the guillotine under the nose of the Revolutionary tribunal.
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The Gallic Wars
£1.99Julius Caesar’s own account of conquering Gaul, written as political propaganda for audiences back in Rome and still a classic of military narrative.
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Silas Marner
£0.99A wrongly accused weaver withdraws from the world entirely, until an abandoned child gives him a reason to rejoin it.
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The Willows
£0.99Two canoeists camping on an island in the Danube sense something ancient and hostile moving in the willows around their tent.
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Myths and Legends of China
£1.99Dragons, immortals, and the Jade Emperor populate this comprehensive survey of Chinese mythology, gathered by a Western scholar who lived for decades in China.
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Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management
£2.99The definitive Victorian guide to running a household, from hiring servants to carving meat, that made Mrs Beeton a household name in households everywhere.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
£1.99Franklin’s account of his own rise from runaway printer’s apprentice to statesman and scientist, written as advice to his son and never quite finished.
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Idylls of the King
£1.99Tennyson retells the Arthurian legend as a series of poems tracing Camelot’s rise and fall, from Arthur’s marriage to Guinevere’s betrayal and the Round Table’s ruin.
