 | The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £9.81 A complete guide on how to live...and how to learn how to die, while keeping your sense of humour.
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 | The Iliad (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy used from: £0.01 what can I say? not much changed in the world of men and gods...
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 | In Search of Lost Time: 6 Volumes by Marcel Proust
Buy used from: £162.15 desert island special
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 | Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Buy used from: £2.50 St Ex discovered his humanity while flying across the Andes - and shares it with us.
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 | The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The most moving book about the Vietnam war, and the wounds it inflicted, you will ever read. Written by a North Vietnamese conscript turned writer
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 | An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 the gestures and histories that made us
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 | The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.49 Because when you are human, you have always something to lose, and to remember
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 | Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 read about crazy Eva, and turn grey life into blood red
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 | Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £7.54 observation and insight. I particularly like the one about the English seaside postcards, and A Hanging.
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 | Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £3.07 playful but deep exploration of the shifting shapes that humanity calls its cities. Nothing happens, but at the end, everything around you looks different.
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 | Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times
Buy used from: £0.72 read any page and open your eyes
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