 | Macbeth (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £1.98 / Used from: £0.01 The ultimate in Tragedy, with a dashing of political intrigue and witchcraft
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 | The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by John Webster
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £2.50 Political intrigue and incest, and a classic Tragedy
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.33 / Used from: £0.33 Romance gone all wrong! Its a nice change in Victorian literature, filled with fascinatingly human characters
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 | The Complete Plays (Penguin Classics) by Christopher Marlowe
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £6.52 A very dark and controversial playwright
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 | Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.64 / Used from: £0.01 Victorian society, warts n all, and apparently the most ambitious work of Dickens
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 | Medea and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Euripides
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.74 Hell hath no fury, like a spurned woman
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 | Othello (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 To love a villain, to see Othello... Iago is one of the best stage villains ever
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 | King Lear (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £13.26 / Used from: £0.01 I'm going to see this in Stratford in the summer... can't wait...
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 | The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.49 I think you either love him or you hate him, but his cold Victorian narrative chills the blood in classics such as the Masque of Red Death and the Tell-Tale Heart
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 | The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Alighieri Dante
Buy used from: £5.43 To Hell and back... literally
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 | Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £1.89 A challenging read I have yet to make, but apparently its worth it
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 | The Theban Plays (Classics) by Sophocles
Buy new: £1.75 / Used from: £0.01 The Original Tragedy (well, not actually, but...)
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 | Frankenstein: Or "The Modern Prometheus" - The 1818 Text: The Modern Prometheus (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.25 Probably best to get rid of your Frankenstein monster pre-conceptions before reading
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.45 Dredging the depths of human psychology, a pseudo-autobiography
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 | East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.50 Another book dealing with the Fall of Man, in a way
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