 | Milton : Complete English Poems (Everyman) by John Milton
Buy used from: £0.01 Get lost in Paradise... Milton is fabulous. Pure Genius.
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 | Everything (A Book about Manic Street Preachers) by Simon Price
Buy used from: £4.01 The best volume on the most important band in the World
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 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Play by Christopher Hampton
Buy used from: £1.95 sex, corruption and hedonistic decadence
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 | Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.00 I found some great poems in here that I'd never read before. Prozac for the soul
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 | Making The News:: An Anthology Of The Newsbooks Of Revolutionary England 1641-1660 by Joad Raymond
Buy used from: £23.70 This anthology is a fascinating collection of 'Newsbooks' [later to become what we now call 'newspapers'] with useful commentaries. It's fascinating to see how little the press has actually changed!
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 | The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History) by Christopher Hill
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £5.66 This superb book endorsing my view that history and literature are, virtually, synonymous.
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 | The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
Buy used from: £0.01 Simultaneously tragic and comic. Heart-felt humour can be heartwarming
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 | The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Panther) by W.G. Sebald
Buy used from: £3.60 Searingly beautiful and thought provoking.
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 | In the Skin of a Lion (Picador Books) by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.24 Even better than his more famous 'The English Patient'. I promise this will make you think.
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Popular Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 A world in a day and enough to disappear in...
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 | Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Vintage classics) by William Styron
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £1.50 An honest portrayl of the author's struggles with the daemons of despair. Title is a quote from Paradise Lost.
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 | Tender is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £0.01 Based on fact, this fiction is a masterpiece... a psychology ahead of its time?
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 | L Etranger, L' by Albert Camus
Buy used from: £26.27 this short novel is best read in French - even if u only 'get' 1/2 of it. The prose is too poetic 4 a successful translation.
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 | Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 Take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...
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 | Maria, or the Wrongs of a Woman by M Wollstonecraft
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £1.36 evocative, beautiful and sad. Beyond bedlam, a woman incarcerated for no good reason...
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 | The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics) by Johann Goethe
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £1.88 Apparently this book caused an 'epidemic' of suicides across Europe. Best read for its literary qualities
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £12.65 / Used from: £3.00 'sanity is not statistical' - every good Manics fan must be able to quote from this novel.
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 | The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.24 The most profound album ever recorded, listen to the lyrics... political, literary references etc pour out of every line.
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