 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy used from: £0.01 A masterpiece of Tolstoy that gives both an in depth account of how and why the Napoleonic war with Russia was lost while also describing the events of characters in an intriging plot.
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 | Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 An excelent novel of a woman vacilliating over various aspects of life due to sinister events.
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 | William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Oxford Shakespeare)
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £8.59 No one can go without reading all of these, each one another masterpiece.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.11 / Used from: £0.84 My Favourite Book! Stalin's Russia represented in Britain with the everpresent ey of Big Brother and the Thought Police. A must have!
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £2.75 / Used from: £0.01 Arguably the best political satire of all time. The Russia revolution, animal style!
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 | The Iliad and the Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Homer
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £2.82 One of the best translations of these epic tales, with an easy to understandinh, conprehensible introdution and summary of each book by Jan Parker.
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 | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Short and sinister, excellent. But do not read with any conceptions of modern day- it is nothing like it!
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 | The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £6.88 Comedy at its best- mixing the sinister Dorian Grey with the entertaining Importance of Being Ernest. Absolutely great!
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Red Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.96 Fitzgeralds's greatest work- a unputdownable account of 1920's America, of wealth, alcohole, vourism and corruption.
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 | The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Norton Anthology) by V Leitch
Buy new: £32.29 / Used from: £21.50 Essential reading. A simple summary of all the great theorists and critics, as well as samples of their works.
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 | The Monk (Dover Thrift Editions) by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Buy new: £1.78 / Used from: £0.01 The Gothic, unbeatable. Religion, corruption, temptation, incest and murder.
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 | Complete Tales and Poems (Modern Library) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: £11.58 / Used from: £6.51 Where would we be without Edgar Allan Poe?
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 | Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £4.09 hated every page, but it is an interesting take on Homer. Not to be read by those who hate monologues!
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £0.33 You must read this to understand the above.
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 | Hard Times (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Dickens! Must any more be said?
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 | Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis
Buy new: £2.50 / Used from: £1.50 A controversial take on the holocaust. Masterpiece.
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 | The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £1.68 Communist heaven!
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 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.65 Why did it fall. Well find out.
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 | The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £4.55 Stalin vs Hitler- how similar were they? Very. Read it.
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 | Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 19331938: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) by John Archibald Getty
Buy used from: £61.87 Was Stalin responsible for the purges? You won't think so after this!
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 | Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
Absolutely anything by Kershaw. Hitler will be opened up to you.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 heathcliff and Cathy, will anyone forget them? Gothic and disturbing, and excellent read.
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 | The Canterbury Tales: A Selection (Penguin Popular Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: £1.90 / Used from: £0.01 For anyone who loves language. Its a bit hard going, but worth it.
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 | Capital: Critique of Political Economy v. 1 (Classics S.) by Karl Marx
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £9.00 The abridged version might be shorter, but don't give in! For an understanding of Communism, Marx, why captialism is wrong, and how to fix it, please please read this!
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 | Zofloya: Or the Moor (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Dacre
Buy new: £3.02 / Used from: £3.20 Unconventional serial killer herorine!
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