 | The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Buy used from: £40.00 As if you didn't already have it...
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 | The Annals of Imperial Rome (Classics) by Tacitus
Buy new: £7.36 / Used from: £1.51 There aren't enough Classicists in the world
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 | Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian (Penguin Modern Classics) by Marguerite Yourcenar
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 | Death of an Inquisitor by Leonardo Sciascia
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 | The Drowned and the Saved (Abacus Books) by Primo Levi
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 | Later Short Stories (Modern Library) by A.P. Chekhov
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 | Bend Sinister (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.50 I included this as one of my particular favourites among Nabokov's works; consider it a recommendation of all his novels
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 | L' Etranger (Folio) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £0.29 Follow with La Peste and then La Chute. Le Premier Homme is interesting but incomplete. Various essays are also worth reading, such as Le Mythe de Sisyphe
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 | The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne
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 | The Leopard (Everyman's Library classics) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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 | The Best of Myles: A Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn' by Flann O'Brien
Buy used from: £0.01 For lovers of cynicism and languages - some of the pieces are in Latin, German or Irish. The Buchhandlung piece alone is reason to buy this book. Also get The Third Policeman and At Swim Two Birds.
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 | The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South, 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194 by John Julius Norwich
I would also recommend the Byzantine trilogy and his History of Venice
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 | The Complete Short Stories (Vintage classics) by Franz Kafka
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 | Embers by Sandor Marai
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 | Greek Myths by Robert Graves
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 | Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
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 | Rembrandt by Himself
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 | The Divine Comedy: Inferno v. 1 (Classics) by Dante
Buy used from: £0.01 Musa's is a good prose translation of all 3 books.
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 | Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carlo Levi
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 | Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann
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 | The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
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 | Pompeii: Public and Private Life (Revealing Antiquity) by P Zanker
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 | Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
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