 | The Story of an African Farm (English Library) by Olive Schreiner
Buy used from: £4.33 a novel way ahead of its time, lyrical, sensual and heartbreaking.
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.50 'there, you have finally done it. you have taken life and put it in a book'. don't read this book if you don't like novels where 'nothing happens'. read it if you like great books.
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 | Lolita (Read Red) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.80 / Used from: £2.89 endlessly charming, clever, funny, at times disturbing but always entertaining.
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 | The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.39 am amazing read, made me question every aspect of my life
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 i am not usually a dickens fan, but this was by far the best novel of his and one of the best of the period
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 | A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Harvest Book) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £8.01 / Used from: £7.00 a great book to dip in and out of, a joy to read as she takes so much pleasure in words.
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 | The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £5.27 / Used from: £2.55 not a vast tome, but still not an easy book to read, though still rewarding.
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.41 one of the best books i've read in a long time
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 | Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 absolutely hilarious, just a really entertaining read
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 | Mythologies (Vintage classics) by Roland Barthes
Buy used from: £3.50 his writing styleis not to everyone's taste, and the second part of the book does get a bit too technical, but the opening collection of essays is definately worth reading
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 | Heart Of Darkness : by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: £0.01 nott a fan. at all. nothing to make up for the fact that there is not plot, no character, and no great writing either.
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 | Things Fall Apart (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.71 deeply flawed but still a masterpiece.
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 | Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 this is an entertaining read, but nothing more. it left me with a feeling of unfulfillment and i suspect sarah waters is little more than a hack.
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 | Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s (Academy Victorian Classic) by Arthur Morrison
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £6.99 very underrated book, thought provoking and entertaining.
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