 | Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 The first book to ever really make me cry - so shocking and moving
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 | Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £0.01 Lyrical and fantastical
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 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Penguin Popular Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Brutal and moving - there is so much more to this book than legend would have you believe. Hugo is much underrated as a classical writer
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Summer Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy used from: £0.01 Perhaps guilty of melodrama in our modern eyes, but nonetheless, wild, descriptive and passionate
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Who can resist the mystery and romance of this story ??
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 | The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy used from: £0.01 It is hard to choose just one of Thomas Hardy's heroines, but Eustacia Vye is a woman truly trapped in too early a time. Wonderful enigmatic descriptions of environment and person - typical of Hardy
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.46 Adolesence on the edge
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 | Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 I think I like this better than any other Jane Austen book. Underated among her works, but a mature and moving with all the usual Austen ingredients
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 | Gigi: Play (Acting Edition) by Anita Loos
Buy used from: £19.99 I like this book, because Colette was such an interesting character, because I like the movie and its just a great story
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 | Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero (Oxford World's Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Becky Sharp has to be one of the greatest heroines/anti-heroines (depending how you look at it) ever committed to paper. Long, but worth the time
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 | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy used from: £0.01 Cornish setting, mystery, attractive man loves ordinary girl - hope for us all !
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 | Brave New World (Voyager Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £4.75 Prophetic, readable, challenging
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 | The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic character studies
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 | Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy used from: £0.01 Raunchy in its time, moving and human - an underrated classic
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 | No Name (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy used from: £3.00 I read this book because I liked its title - which seems as good a reason as any to choose a book ! Collins is a great write of mysteries - another underrated writer
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