 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.26 Orwell's masterwork defined the early half of the 20th century and influenced the rest.
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 | The Plague (Essential Penguin) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Camus is the king of mid-twentieth century euro-lit and this is his best work.
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 | Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £3.81 Beckett is arguably the 20th century's greatest playwright. Here is his entire dramatic cannon including 'Waiting for Godot', 'Endgame', 'Play', 'Krapp's Last Tape'.
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 | Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.93 No other poet captured the twentieth century quite like Plath. Beautiful, haunting, vengeful and always open.
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 | Metamorphosis and others stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.77 Kafka, the most unique voice to have come out of Continental Europe last century.
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 | Sarah Kane: Complete Plays (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists): Blasted; mPhaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin by Sarah Kane
Buy new: £10.55 / Used from: £8.66 Sarah Kane personified British Theatre in the nineties, all her works in one volume.
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 | Borderliners (Harvill Panther) by Peter Hoeg
Buy used from: £0.01 No one else in the world is writing like Hoeg at the moment, masterful, bleak and so moving it hurts.
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.01 Orwell's second greatest work and a triumph of satire.
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 | Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid by Tibor Fischer
Buy new: £5.06 / Used from: £0.01 Tibor Fischer's alternative nineties. Hilarious and beautifully written.
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 | AA Gill is Away by A.A. Gill
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 One journalist's take on the latter half of the twentieth century.
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