 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.10 Or rather The Portrait of A soon-to-be-literary-genius As a Young Man
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.25 Masterful, lyrical, quotidian, sensual, neurotic, epical, poetic, subversive Joyce
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 | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £2.40 A Woolfian literary rollercoaster - reminiscence and a poetic sense gives the novel an intimate and irreguarly poignant feel.
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 | War and Peace (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.90 / Used from: £2.75 Orlando Figes rightfully says of "War and Peace" (the title itself, of course, a reputation per se) "a wonderful affirmation of human life". Hear! Hear!
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 | Things Fall Apart (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.43 Chinua Achebe, one of African literature's greatest sons, here tells the story of a colonial past how it should be told - by the native: the repressed representation of a lost way of life.
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.01 Like "To the Lighthouse" and company, the publication of Dalloway signalled an utter rejection of Edwardian and Victorian literary values. It was the ushering in of the Modernist movement.
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 | The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.74 In the unfortunate, yet understandable, shadow of "Karenina" and W&P, "The Death" is a remarkably haunting quasi-short story. A terrifying tale, sometimes overlooked as the tour de force it is.
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 | The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.50 Read this. Then read it again. Then make your own conclusions. Then, inevitably, your own comparisons.
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 | The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £1.20 Chaucer is not only the godfather of the English Language but the father of all serious literature.
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 | The Birthday Party (Pinter plays) by Harold Pinter
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.48 Sometimes this play does not receive the deserved acknowledgement due - it is one of the most important plays of the 20th Century and the first of the late Pinter; a pioneer: a modern Shakespeare.
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