 | The Book of the New Sun: Volume 2: Sword and Citadel: Sword and Citadel Vol 2 (Fantasy Masterworks) by Gene Wolfe
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.25 A stunning conclusion to a fantastic quartet. Perhaps not flawless, and some may not warm to Wolfe's constant ambiguity, but brilliant nonetheless.
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 | The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw: Shadow and Claw Vol 1 (Fantasy Masterworks) by Gene Wolfe
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.74 Wonderful writing and a brilliant mind; worthy of being the first amongst the master-class of modern fantasy. Severian and the beginning of his journey - great.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 The finest piece of writing I have ever read: Fitzgerald's style is lovely, his mark left broadly and for all to see - fantastic, stupendous, brilliant. Sad, true, and devilishly so.
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 | Paradise Lost (Longman Annotated English Poets) by Alastair Fowler
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £17.61 Paradise Lost is the most amazing poem I have ever read: brilliant themes and huge lines of meaningful poetry, encapsulating the myths and giving them a feeling of truth, humanity, and wonder.
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 | The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Donne
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £0.48 John Donne is a poet so like myself in thought that I feel his writings are something of a dream. He is brutal and wise to the point of pain.
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 | The Great Dune Trilogy: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune: "Dune", "Dune Messiah", "Children of Dune" (Gollancz S.F.) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £5.75 Dune: superb and deep, giving us Paul Muad'Dib, one of the most amazing characters ever to be written. Dune Messiah: emotional, magical, beautiful. CoD: Good, but not that good.
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 I read little books concerning feminism (and this is hardly that feministic in theme) but still an interesting book. Hardy's forté was poetry but this was good, very good. An enjoyable read.
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Great ideas and themes, the only lack being that the style of writ was not as entertaining as I thought it might be.
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Intelligent style, dramatic themes, and great characters - who could want more.
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 | The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Dazzling style of writing as always.
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.50 Great, simply great.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 When I was young, i used to be intimidated by Dickens, but as I have grown, so has my passion for his work. Love it - I love it all.
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 | David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 The closest thing to knowing Dickens might be in knowing this book. Just my opinion though.
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 | Beowulf: Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: £1.78 / Used from: £1.80 Love this poem, always have.
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 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £1.12 / Used from: £0.68 I love RLS, and this is one of the many works which he claims fame from, and rightfully so.
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 | Latro in the Mist by Gene Wolfe
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £3.67 This book takes me away from reality and, at the same time, backwards through time: this is fantastic!
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 | War Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
Buy new: £2.42 / Used from: £2.50 A brilliant poet.
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 | Complete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.52 Fantastic stuff. Modern, eloquent, and aesthetic.
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 | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Special Editions) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £3.12 Everyone should know the works of this man - Shakespeare was and is a genius: fact.
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 | The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Ed. by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: £20.80 / Used from: £11.00 I love all the tales from this time, especially Chaucer's fabliaux.
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 | Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.90 Compulsory philosophy for those who appreciate raw genius.
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 | Human, All Too Human (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £3.00 Another of Nietzsche's testaments. Pure brilliance.
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 | The Idiot (Penguin Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £4.47 Dostoevsky doing his usual. Good narrative. Good story.
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