 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.20 the most comprehensive introduction to Borges there is.
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 | The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: £10.95 hello boys.
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 | The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £6.85 / Used from: £3.85 he won the Nobel Prize for this.
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 | Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: £3.25 spiritually uplifting. Life changing. [whatever! I mean, as if a book can change anything!!!!!]
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 | Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £1.81 again, life changing. Yet it will make you more pessimistic, and sceptical of everything you hold dear.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.03 / Used from: £0.47 a precise book, moving too. errrr? Have I taken crazy pills?
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 | Strait is the Gate (Penguin Modern Classics) by Andre Gide
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £5.02 the best [what's that?] love story ever written, not to mention a theological feast.
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 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.97 unusual, yet addictive reading. It forces you to think about the nature of books, whilst being a brilliant one at the same time.
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 | Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £3.07 a book which endeavours to describe every possible facet of any city, and yet describes only one, Venice. Almost poetry.
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 | Adam, One Afternoon (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.56 a beautifully written set of short stories, in celebration of life.
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 | Our Ancestors (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.60 probably my favourite Calvino story, The Baron in The Trees.
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £1.07 a masterpiece. Read it at your peril, you may go mad.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.30 if you haven't read this book, you should. It will perhaps enable you to admire indifference, whilst realising its perils.
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 | The Aspern Papers (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
Buy used from: £0.01 The Definitive Henry James. Or rather, if you want to start on any of his books, choose this one.
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