The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
£2.99Darwin extends natural selection to human origins and proposes sexual selection as the force behind everything from peacock feathers to human beauty standards.
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Eve’s Diary
£0.99Twain imagines the diary entries of Adam and Eve in Eden, wringing gentle comedy out of the first marriage in history.
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Pushing to the Front
£1.99Victorian-era profiles of self-made achievers, offered as proof that persistence and character could overcome any disadvantage of birth.
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Kim
£1.99An orphaned Irish boy in colonial India is recruited as a spy while searching for his own identity between two worlds.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
£0.99A jealous husband murders his wife over a piece of music in Tolstoy’s ferocious, autobiographical attack on marriage, lust, and himself.
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Erewhon
£1.99A traveller stumbles into a hidden society that criminalises illness and treats crime as a matter for doctors, in Samuel Butler’s inverted satire of Victorian values.
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The Red Fairy Book
£1.99More fairy tales gathered from French, German, and Scandinavian sources, including early versions of Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin.
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Bulfinch’s Mythology
£1.99A sweeping single-volume retelling of Greek, Roman, and Norse myth that made the classical gods accessible to generations of readers who never touched the originals.
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Acres of Diamonds
£0.99A preacher’s oft-repeated lecture argues that opportunity is usually right where you’re standing, if you bother to look for it.
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
£0.99The teachings of a former slave turned Stoic philosopher, on how to stay free and untroubled no matter what happens to you.
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Areopagitica
£0.99Milton’s furious argument against government censorship of the press, still quoted in free-speech debates nearly four centuries later.
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Two Years Before the Mast
£1.99A Harvard student drops out to spend two brutal years as a common sailor rounding Cape Horn, and writes the classic account of life before the mast.
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Le Morte d’Arthur
£2.99The definitive English-language telling of King Arthur, Camelot, and the Round Table, compiled from French and English romance by a knight writing from prison.
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The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
£1.99Fannie Farmer’s precise, standardised measurements revolutionised American home cooking and turned recipe-writing from guesswork into a science.
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
£1.99Einstein explains his own theory of relativity in plain language, written for readers with a general scientific background rather than fellow physicists.
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Five Children and It
£0.99Five children dig up a bad-tempered sand fairy who grants wishes — badly, and with unpredictable consequences, every single day.
