 | The Bride of Lammermoor (Oxford World's Classics) by Walter Scott
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £2.42 A story about a family feud and the love between the rivals´offspring.
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 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Penguin Popular Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 For whom the bells toll.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of the most famous literary couples and their boisterous love.
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 | Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 The most cherished fictional orphan.
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 | War and Peace (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.80 / Used from: £5.00 Part war essay, part a novel. Long but a great read. Platon Karataiev , though a minor character, is my favourite.
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 | Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.33 / Used from: £2.99 A great tragic heroin from one of the greatest writers.
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 | Madame Bovary (Wordsworth Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 The french answer to "Anna Karenina". Another great tragic heroin.
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 | Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 A depressing read but great nonetheless.
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 | The Woman in White (Penguin Summer Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the pioneers of mistery novels.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Another unforgettable heroin...
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.52 ... which some say , inspired Du Maurier to write this suspenseful book! Perhaps it has the most unexpected twist in the tale of all.
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 | Platero and I by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £4.46 OK! Perhaps the least known book of this list but its lyrical descriptions and poignant chapters are wondrous. Written by a Nobel-prized writer.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Another great classic. Miss Havisham is such a memorable character
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 | A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 An evergreen for Christmas time. And God bless us all...
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 | The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
Buy used from: £15.50 Frightening and enchanting children since 1800 and something.
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 | Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by H.C. Andersen
Buy used from: £25.39 H.C. Andersen should be a wonderful person.
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 | Nils: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and the Further Adventures of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlof
Buy used from: £25.75 Lagerlof was a gifted writer who deserved to be the first woman Nobel awarded.
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 | The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Buy used from: £0.01 If you never read this , do it quickly! Another Nobel prized writer.
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 | The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Popular Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Hester Prynne challenges the system of moral authority and places belief in the higher law of her own heart.
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 | The Emperor of Portugalia by Selma Lagerlof
Buy new: £20.85 / Used from: £19.06 No one portrayed a fatherly love so well as Selma Lagerlof in this sad tale. Despite the title , it got nothing to do with Portugal!
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 | The Last Days of Pompeii by Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Buy used from: £21.91 I read this when I was a teenager and since then i read it several other times. The title says all.
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A great literary adventure and also a tale of obsession and revenge.
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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 The cruelty to the enslaved black people is portrayed in such a poignant way in this book! .
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 | Lady Audley's Secret (Wordsworth Classics) by M.E. Braddon
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Even better than Collins´" The Woman in White". A fast paced novel ( unlike other victorian novels) tells us the desperate tries of a woman to keep her past a secret.
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