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Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics)Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
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Undercutting the fear of growing old and ridiculous with wicked humour.
Midnight's ChildrenMidnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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An astonishingly detailed and myth-saturated epic.
Tristram Shandy: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (English Library)Tristram Shandy: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (English Library) by Laurence Sterne
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A maddeningly sprawling masterpiece that prefigures postmodernism by 300 years.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
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Victorian hysteria-induced weirdness.
Timoleon Vieta Come HomeTimoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
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Lassie with a twist...of the knife.
Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics)Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
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Any Greene will do the trick, really.
The Comic StoriesThe Comic Stories by A.P. Chekhov
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Exclamation marks: now you're laughing at chekov's jokes, not your own.
A Moveable Feast (Vintage classics)A Moveable Feast (Vintage classics) by Ernest Hemingway
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Caveat: Hemingway's Paris wasn't that great; be glad you're in the bowels of London.
Foe (Essential Penguin)Foe (Essential Penguin) by J M Coetzee
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A recasting of the first novel ever written. So clever it hurts.
Heart of DarknessHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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There is no way you can avoid reading this book. Don't even try.