Agnes Grey
£1.99A clergyman’s daughter takes work as a governess and confronts the casual cruelty of the wealthy families who employ her.
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Twice-Told Tales
£1.99Hawthorne’s early short stories of guilt, obsession, and New England Puritanism, told with the same moral unease that runs through The Scarlet Letter.
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Fathers and Sons
£1.99A young nihilist’s visit home exposes the widening gulf between Russia’s old aristocracy and its restless, radical youth.
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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
£1.99The steel magnate’s own account of his rise from Scottish immigrant to America’s richest man, and the philosophy of giving it all away.
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Indian Fairy Tales
£1.99Tricksters, tigers, and clever farmers’ daughters populate this classic collection of folk tales gathered from across India.
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
£0.99Stevenson hikes through the French mountains with a stubborn donkey for company, in the travelogue that helped invent recreational hiking as a pastime.
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
£0.99Darwin’s brief, private memoir, written for his children and never intended for publication, reflecting candidly on his own career, faith, and character.
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Character
£1.99Samuel Smiles follows up his bestseller Self-Help with more case studies arguing that duty, work, and courage build character better than wealth or birth ever could.
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Micrographia
£1.99Robert Hooke’s 1665 masterpiece of microscopy first showed the world plant cells, flea anatomy, and the surface of a needle — and coined the word ‘cell’.
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Eugénie Grandet
£1.99A miser’s devotion to gold slowly destroys his devoted daughter’s chance at happiness, in Balzac’s study of greed within a single Loire Valley household.
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Germinal
£2.99A desperate miners’ strike in northern France spirals into violence and starvation, in Zola’s brutal, still-shocking portrait of industrial poverty.
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Barchester Towers
£1.99A quiet cathedral town is thrown into an uproar of petty rivalries and social climbing when a new bishop’s chaplain arrives.
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Tartuffe
£0.99A pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy household and nearly makes off with the wife, the daughter, and the family fortune, in Molière’s most notorious comedy.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
£0.99An orphaned New England girl is sent to live with two stern aunts and gradually thaws their household with her irrepressible spirit.
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Twenty Years at Hull-House
£1.99Jane Addams recounts founding Hull House, a settlement house that brought healthcare, education, and childcare to Chicago’s immigrant poor.
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My First Summer in the Sierra
£1.99John Muir’s journal of a season shepherding sheep through the Sierra Nevada, and falling completely in love with the wilderness he’d go on to help protect.
