 | Natural History (Penguin Classics) by The Elder Plinny
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £5.49 A real eye-opener, despite varied accuracy, Easy to read and full of memorable anecdotes
|
 | The Art of Rhetoric: Art of Rhetoric (Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £6.46 a good practical and theoretical book on public speaking
|
 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.68 A novel guaranteed to raise your IQ substantially. Just don't let the latin put you off
|
 | The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Classics) by Plutarch
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £2.92 You could do worse to get ahead in life than read these biographies.
|
 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy used from: £0.86 gets you interested in issues you never knew about.
|
 | The Politics (Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.49 practical in some respects, (especially the chapters on education) just interesting in others. a good follow on from Plato
|
 | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: v. 1 (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
Buy new: £11.47 / Used from: £6.00 dense, but detailed and very critical-everything a good history should be.
|
 | Early Socratic Dialogues (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £4.74 field guide to critical thought and vital to anybody who doesn't take things at face value.
|
Listmania!
