 | Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero (Oxford World's Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, funny, funny. Great victorian caricature, caustic authorial wit. Cruel satire. Sheer pleasure.
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 | The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: £10.90 / Used from: £8.49 Great portrait of medieval England. Tales of wit, farce, immorality, chivalry, mysticism, romance, heroism, earthy humour. Colour, life and joy.
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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: £3.87 If you like a bedtime story, read this - there are loads in here, and they're all great.
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £1.54 Timeless classic. A serious work in praise of freedom and human dignity.
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 | If This Is a Man, and The Truce (Everyman's Library Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £6.67 Mind-boggling first-hand account of the terrors of nazism and industrial genocide
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 Spellbinding - even if you are not interested in mountaineering. Bit of a cautionary tale of greed, selfishness, ego and driving ambition. Unputdownable
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 | Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.49 Excellent comedy by a master of the English language
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 | The Code of the Woosters (Everyman Wodehouse) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £5.33 This or anything else really by a genius of comic writing
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 | Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carlo Levi
Buy new: £6.42 / Used from: £0.70 Levi's account of his exile in Southern Italy during Mussolin's dictatorship. Great detail and moving accounts of the life of the backward peasants who Levi lived among
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 | The Acid House by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Very, very funny and imaginative. Some of the stuff in here had me in tears. Unfortunately it's been downhill all the way for Welsh since this book.
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