 | The Story of My Life (Penguin Classics) by Giacomo Casanova
Buy new: £8.59 / Used from: £6.31 What a life! This is a glorious read simply because the exploits, intrigues and assignations are true. Lovely stylish, insight into the mores of the time.
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 | All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Pure poetry. Brilliantly observed story, with language that brings the landscape alive. Stark yet capitavating and ultimately uplifting.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.79 Spartan language, even bleak but somehow you are drawn into the apparently banal and mundane to find a gem of a romance buried in the pointlesness of the war.
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 | I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.45 Pure class. This has everything, great plot, complex characterisation and Roths fabulous prose just drawing you along. A fantastic tale of McCarthyist America,
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 | The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Oxford World's Classics) by Owen Wister
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.49 Groundbreaking novel that set out the archetype for the Western genre. Good versus evil, pretty gal, horses, injuns. Great prose and style puts you right there.
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 | Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully crafted story told with a precision that keeps you hooked. Various plot twists are clever and delicately woven.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £3.83 / Used from: £1.31 Mean, moody, dark & daring. The power of the twin emotions of love and hate just drip from the page. The Classic... Classic!
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 | Roughing it (Penguin Classics American Library) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £1.34 Mad as a box of frogs! Outlandish tales within a roaring travelogue. try and get Mark Twain Library edition(US) if you can.
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 | Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy
Buy new: £7.75 / Used from: £4.25 Gloriously detailed work but with a style that keeps the pages turning. Gives an excellent portryal of the man and his milieu.
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 | The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.60 Conceit, deceit, triumph, disaster, love and loss. apart from a brilliant satire on its times it is a cracking tale, melodrama and morals.
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