 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.79 All of Carter's work is amazing but these short stories really make you think about sexuality and traditional imagery in the fairy tale genre
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 | Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Buy new: £5.12 / Used from: £0.76 Carter again, this is an intriguing and really funny book. Fevvers is an inspired character in a story of Victorian weirdness and carnivalesque. Reccomended.
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 | The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
Buy used from: £0.01 A great novella and, read with Freud in mind, it has some very interesting aspects.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
A really beautiful and haunting novel.
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 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.00 All Eco's novels are impressive and informative, this is the best of the bunch.
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 | Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £3.78 Such a good book - everyone should read this. So it goes.
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 | Death in Venice (Vintage Crucial Classics) by Thomas Mann
Buy used from: £0.01 An interesting modernist story of aestheticism and obsession.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy used from: £0.61 A really gripping novel, I wasn't keen when I came to read this for my course but do highly reccomend it.
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £1.72 Read it after Jane Eyre. The 'madwoman' in Rochester's attic gets to tell her own sad story.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Flamingo modern classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £0.82 Definitely the funniest book I have ever read, it gets better each time I read it.
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