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Books to read in October
The Romance of Tristan: The Tale of Tristan's Madness (Classics)The Romance of Tristan: The Tale of Tristan's Madness (Classics) by Beroul
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01
Eyebrow-fluttering romps affording a lucid insight into the early English mind
A Bible Study on: The Pursuit of HolinessA Bible Study on: The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
Buy used from: £3.79
The Christian's great struggle given balanced treatment
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by T.E. Lawrence
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.52
Depressingly perfect prose from a great champion of the Arab struggle for independence
La DebacleLa Debacle by Emile Zola
Buy new: £5.81 / Used from: £1.30
Zola doing what he does best: yawning languidly at human conflict
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English DictionaryThe Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.01
Murray: every scholar's hero
Identity, Culture and the Postmodern WorldIdentity, Culture and the Postmodern World by Madan Sarup
Buy new: £20.84 / Used from: £17.00
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and SchizophreniaAnti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze
Buy used from: £9.99
What is Philosophy?What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: £11.44 / Used from: £12.00
Modernity and the HolocaustModernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
Buy new: £14.75 / Used from: £11.00
An insightful, but very, very black sociological report
Two Lives of Charlemagne (Classics)Two Lives of Charlemagne (Classics) by Einhard
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Another great title for dramatically improving your understanding of the Middle Ages
The Byzantine Fathers of the Fifth CenturyThe Byzantine Fathers of the Fifth Century by Georges Florovsky
Good luck with trying to find a copy, but well worth the effort
The Great Political Theories: 002The Great Political Theories: 002
Buy used from: £1.20
A classic case of not judging a book by the proverbial... Truly excellent
Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy used from: £4.47
Clarity of conviction and visionary, but understated prolepsis were the abiding of my first read
Pagan Christianity: The Origins of Our Modern Church PracticesPagan Christianity: The Origins of Our Modern Church Practices by Frank A. Viola
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First-century Christian radicalism
The Secret History (Classics)The Secret History (Classics) by Procopius
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01
This presumably is how a red-top newspaper would have read in early Byzantium
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics)Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics) by F. Petrarch
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.86
Good to see a new edition of this young romantic's favourite Italian poet
Sound and Symbol in ChineseSound and Symbol in Chinese by Bernhard Karlgren
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Another unlikely piece of classic popular scholarship
Jeremiah (Soncino Books of the Bible)Jeremiah (Soncino Books of the Bible)
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The God-fearing outsider walks ancent Israel at the time on the eve of the Babylonian Captivity