 | Scarlet and Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
Buy used from: £0.01 So Dostoevsky invented the psychological novel? What's this then?
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 | Siddhartha (Modern Library): An Indian Poem by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.29 Enlightening AND moving, novel AND guide to life
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 | Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.85 The ultimate ambient novel. Are these all different cities or all the same one?
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 | A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.68 If Arthur C Clarke is your idea of science fiction, read this
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 | Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.00 Rashomon is bleak; and it doesn't go exactly uphill from there...
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 | Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook) by JL Borges
Buy new: £7.39 / Used from: £6.63 So THIS is what they mean when they say "Tour de Force"
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 | Moby-Dick (Vintage Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.25 Badly written, I think: but this is still THE great American novel
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 | The Leopard: Revised and with New Material (Vintage Classics) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Buy new: £6.01 / Used from: £3.22 Everyone said it was great so I wanted to dislike it; I couldn't
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 | Elephant and Other Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.04 Not the only excellent collection of Carver's short stories; but excellent
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 | The Essential Tales of Chekhov by A.P. Chekhov
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £9.08 I've no idea whether he really did invent the short story; but he was damn good at it
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