Animal Farm

George Orwell

Orwell's chilling farmyard parody of Soviet Russia is brought vividly to life with illustrations by Quentin Blake.

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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Bored by her calculating husband and eager to live life, Anna falls in love, but her grand passion is doomed to end unhappily. Against this ruinous affair are set the stories of other loves, other marriages and an unsurpassed portrait of Russia in the latter part of the 19th century.

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The Art of War

Sun- tzu

Written over 2,500 years ago, The Art of War remains the most famous military treatise of all time. Sun-tzu’s collection of precepts on strategic warfare has yet to be surpassed.

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Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild

Pauline, Petrova and Posy are three orphans struggling to make their way in this 'fairy story with both feet firmly on the ground'. Beloved by generations of children, this book remains a delightful and inspirational tale.

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Dee Brown

A searing and visceral account of how the American West was really won. Told from the point of view of the American Indian, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. Translated into 17 languages and a bestseller worldwide, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee awakened a new understanding of America’s past.

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Byzantium

John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium tells the epic story in all its lurid, magnificent and compelling detail in three magnificent volumes: The Early Centuries, The Apogee and The Decline and Fall.

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The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Set during the Alaskan gold rush of 1897, Jack London’s classic adventure story inspired Kerouac and Orwell. In this Folio edition, Abigail Rorer’s drawings depict the fierce beauty of the frozen Yukon. David Vann introduces.

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Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

One of the most beloved children's classics of all time tells the story of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a kind spider, saved one special pig.

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The Chronicles of Narnia

C. S. Lewis

The magical land of Narnia is a world like no other. With talking animals, mythical creatures, the evil White Witch and the mighty lion Aslan, Lewis's magnificent fantasy series has captivated children for generations. Now reissued in a striking new binding.

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

This illustrated edition brings together all the surviving Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, in the acclaimed University of Chicago translations, with newly commissioned prefaces.

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The Desert War Trilogy

Alan Moorehead

Writing for ten to twelve hours a day in the lulls between battlefield sorties, Alan Moorehead gathered material for the three books of The Desert War Trilogy, which he published during the war itself. Together they form an electrifying contemporary account of one of the most thrilling and decisive arenas of the Second World War.

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The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose 'Bitter' Bierce was immortalised by The Devil's Dictionary. His series of satirical definitions and irreverent aphorisms first appeared from 1881 to 1886 in the columns of a provincial newspaper, impaling the sacred cows of civilised life - and much else besides - upon the spikes of his own mordant wit.

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Dickens' London

Charles Dickens

This selection of celebrated essays by Charles Dickens conjures up a peerless, eyewitness account of the 19th-century capital, from the rarefied world of Whitehall to working-class conviviality and blighted slums.

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The Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries Collection

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers wrote ingenious whodunits that were also satisfying and intelligent novels. Her prose is elegant and expressive; her settings are vividly realised, and her characters are flesh-and-blood human beings – most memorably her hero, Lord Peter Wimsey.

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The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers

E. Nesbit

These three books tell of the ups and downs of the six Bastable children, all determined to rescue the family fortune and restore the ancient house of Bastable (a semi-detached on the Lewisham Road). Although they often promise to be good and helpful, their antics only seem to land them in trouble...

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