 | Leucippe and Clitophon (Oxford World's Classics) by Achilles Tatius
Buy used from: £12.30 The Greeks did it first.
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 | The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics) by Apuleius
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.20 Funny entertaining roman writting. And one of the sources of Midsummer's Night Dream. Love, Sex, Adventure. Enjoy.
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 | The Story of the Stone: a Chinese Novel: Vol 1, The Golden Days (Penguin Classics) by Cao Xueqin
Buy new: £8.16 / Used from: £5.73 enchanting chinese writting, I started learning mandarine after reading that.
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 | Journey to the West by Cheng'en Wu
Buy new: £19.92 / Used from: £18.00 Very enjoyable and an interesting introduction to chinese belief system. If it seems too long for you can try Monkey. It is a short but very good adaptation of this.
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 | The Tale of Genji (Penguin Classics) by Murasaki Shikibu
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £11.51 Japanese classic. Soo good, too bad the book is too heavy for me to carry around and read on the tube.
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 | Arabian Nights: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) by PENGUIN GROUP (UK)
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £1.24 As with Boccaccio it is a stories-within-the-story book but I thought as a piece of phenomenal story-telling I should include it in my novels list.
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 | The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.00 Well there must be a reason Shakespeare was so obsessed with that.
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 | Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 fight the good fight.
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 | Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais
Buy new: £10.03 / Used from: £8.34 A whole aspect of our life is Rabelaisian. Don't you want to know what is that all about?
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 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses (English Translation) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.44 I found the film dull. Read the book.
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 | The 120 Days of Sodom (The New Traveller's Companion Series) by Marquis de Sade
Buy used from: £23.99 Try something new today.
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 | The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics) by Johann Goethe
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £1.86 A lot of people killed themselves over that book. Maybe you should try Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, its funnier, though not as celebrated.
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 | Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) by Henry Fielding
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Looove this book. Witty, witty, witty.
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 | The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 All for one and one for all. The best friendship novel ever. don't you ever wish life was like that?
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 | Old Goriot (Penguin Red Classics) by Honore Balzac
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.54 Balzac, Balzac, Balzac. When I was a child I used to know this by heart. Such a storyteller.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 Jane Ausen at her best.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Well, I might be pervy but this book makes me happy.
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 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best studies on the evelution of the human character. Mmm, sounds a bit wood talk but it is.
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 | Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.28 Very dark humour. But so humourous.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.44 Russians again, I try not t have any favorites but this is short of my favorite. You have to read it or Devil will come and get you.
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 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.90 Well, Mann and Proust need a bit of patience for the first 30 pages or so but once you get past that you will be an addict.
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 | In Search of Lost Time: v. 1: The Way by Swann's: The Way by Swann's Vol 1 (In Search of Lost Time 1) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.38 Read it, Read it, Read it. It is a greater experience than backpacking on the Chinese wall.
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.99 any questions??
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £4.56 There are a lot of Kundera novels that you may prefer (Joke, Immortality) but this was the one that made everyone talk about him.
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 | Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
Buy used from: £23.98 Kundera's suggestion. I found Pornografia more accessible but Ferdydurke is undoubtedly his boldest work. A study on the rites of passage.
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