 | The Revenge for Love (Penguin Modern Classics) by Wyndham Lewis
Buy new: £17.85 / Used from: £16.50 Incisive, visual, satirical, intelligent. The most forgotten genius of the 20th century.
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 | Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £5.12 Perfection in every sentence. Erotic, surprizing, rewarding.
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 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics) by Muriel Spark
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £3.63 Any book of hers is a pure delight.
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 | The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ford Madox Ford
Buy used from: £2.65 If there ever the word classic deserved to be used, it's for this one.
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 | The Untouchable by John Banville
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.01 Perhaps the greatest living English writing novelist.
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 | Earthly Powers (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £2.61 A bizarre, rich and complex masterpiece.
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 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy new: £6.51 / Used from: £3.44 Absolutely brilliant with many unexpected twists and turns.
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 | Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.17 A haunting breathtaking journey into the depths of the mind.
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully carved plot and well written.
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 | Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy used from: £1.51 A humane, funny and wise writer.
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 | Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Terrific story with much dry humor and stunning imagery.
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 | The Sheltering Sky (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.37 Electrifing story within a hostile landscape.
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 | Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Is it a trick or is it a book? I think the latter and a brilliant performance at that. This is a major virtuso.
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 | The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A book with understated impact. Very moving.
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 | The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (Canopus in Argos: Archives) by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.04 I enjoy her science fiction even more than the excellent other work.
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 | George Mills (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by S Elkin
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £8.05 A humorous American epic.
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 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 An insightful and enjoyable read.
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 | Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B S Johnson
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £3.50 Off-beat, experimental, cynical and well done.
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £1.21 A great book written with a transparent style worthy of Tolstoy.
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 | Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.09 American Gothic wit at its best.
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 | Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 An accomplished writer with a page turner of a book.
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £1.77 An engrossing rewiting of "Jane Eyre". Simple, elegant prose.
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The book is even better than the film.
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 | Morte D'Urban (NYRB Classics) by J.F. Powers
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £2.23 A quiet comic and endearing masterpiece.
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 | Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by William H. Gass
Buy used from: £5.25 Sometimes thorny prose but worth forging through.
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