 | Ariel: The Restored Text by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: £10.49 A beautiful set of poems, composed just prior to Plath's suicide, they are highly emotive and linguistically experimental.
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 | The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation (Wonders of the World) by Virgil
Buy used from: £0.01 The epic poem mythologising the foundation of Rome, it is a cornerstone of literature as we know it.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.31 A haunting novel about depression, it is a valuable insight into the condition and at the same time is expertly crafted.
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 | The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 These are Eliot's best poems, they are very hard to penetrate but once you do, it is worthwhile.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.93 / Used from: £0.01 Really well researched, a fascinating look at war-time japanese culture.
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 | "King Lear" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.89 Easily his best play, this edition is useful as it comes with critical approaches in a very lengthy introduction.
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 | Candide (Penguin Popular Classics) by Voltaire
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 A hilarious little novel satirising french common french philosophy of his era.
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 | The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £1.42 This edition is great because it features his poetry and critical writings as well as his short stories.
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 | Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £2.68 A great new novel, hilarious in a kind of dark way.
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy used from: £19.87 A terrifying horror novel, probably the best horror novel of the 1900s.
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