 | The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy used from: £0.51 Greek classics. Try also Sappho, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle,....
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 | The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation (Classics) by Virgil
Buy used from: £0.01 The latins (No Ricky Martin related). Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Julius Caesar, Cicero., Seneca....
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 | Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buy used from: £2.25 The Quixote, the first great novel ever. Clue for those who read it for the first time: You can skip Don Quijote's looooong soliloquies and you'll get the sense anyway.
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 | Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Collins classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £2.80 Who was Shakespeare? Shakespeare? Marlowe? Who? If the name of the rose does not matter neither the author's name does.
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 | Les Miserables (Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £0.01 French romantic authors: Hugo and Dumas (father). Dumas was considered a kind of Stephen King because of his highly productive rhythm, his works have stood the test of time.
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 | Nana (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Realism and Naturalism: when reality meets literature. Zola, Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Stendhal,......
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 | Rimbaud: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Arthur Rimbaud
Buy new: £7.37 / Used from: £3.88 The simbolists: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé. "Poetry is the art of evoking an object, little by little, to reveal a soul state, or viceversa" (Mallarmé)
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 | In Search of Lost Time Vol 1: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
Predecessor of modernity. Other major XX century writers: A. Gide, L.F. Céline, Sartre, Camus, S. de Beauvoir,...
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 | Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pushkin
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £1.97 Origin of romanticism in Russia. "Pushkin is to Russian literature, what Leonardo da Vinci is to European art" (M. Gorki)
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 | Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy used from: £0.01 Tolstoi, Dostoyevski, Chekhov, Turguenev, Gogol, Lermontov,....The XIX is the great Russian literature century.
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 | Doctor Zhivago (Harvill Panther) by Boris Pasternak
Buy used from: £0.01 Great century too, with major writers pro and against the communist regime: M. Gorki, I. Bunin, M. Bulgakov, Platonov, Pasternak, .......
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 The Victorian period produced several quality authors, such as the Brontë sisters, W. Scott, Ch. Dickens, Th. Hardy, etc...
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.98 J. Joyce, V. Woolf,....
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 | Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy used from: £7.95 The power of Blackness: the North American Romanticism. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville.
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 | The Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.07 That's what we pay for the lack of perspective: what are the NOVELS of the XXth century? All great American authors were really great?
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 | Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by Federico Garcia Lorca
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £5.75 Lorca, the best known of the poets from the Generación del 27, stands along with Alberti, P. Salinas, D. Alonso, L. Cernuda, Miguel Hernández....A generation broken by the Spanish civil war.,
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 | Stories and Poems (Dual-Language Books) by Ruben Dario
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £5.51 Rubén Darío, best expression of the postmodernism poetry in South America.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Hard to believe, but Latin American literature is more than 100 years... and Love in the time of Cholera. Vargas Llosa, Borges, Neruda, Rulfo, Cortázar, Cabrera Infante, Paz, Allende, Benedetti,....
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 | The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics) by Johann Goethe
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 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.90 Expressionism, a deformed and gloomy vision of reality. T. Mann, H. Hesse, Kafka, Rilke,...
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 | New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz
Buy used from: £19.99 Central Europe literature, part I: Eminescu, Ionescu, Eliade, Gombrowicz, Schulz, Milosz, Szymborska, Herbert, Kusnewicz...
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 | Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.70 Central Europe literature, part II: Andric, Kundera, Hrabal, Mrozek, Roth, Capek, Hasek, Sienkiewicz, ....
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 | The Complete Poems by Guido Cavalcanti
Buy new: £6.30 / Used from: £5.28 Dante, Petrarca, Cavalcanti and Bocaccio, the masters of Italian Trecento.
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