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The Apology of Socrates
19.70 ₾ ?The Apology of Socrates by Plato (Penguin Classics) — Socrates’ defence at his trial in Athens, 399 BC. Facing death with irony and complete moral courage, he refuses to abandon his philosophical mission. At under sixty pages, one of the most rewarding texts in Western philosophy. Trans. Hugh Tredennick.
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
43.10 ₾ ?Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Puffin) — Percy ventures into the Bermuda Triangle to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood, meeting his Cyclops half-brother Tyson along the way. Faster-paced and more confident than the first book — essential for young fans of the series.
The Lost Hero
40.00 ₾ ?The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (Puffin) — the first Heroes of Olympus book, launching three new half-blood heroes — Jason, Piper, and Leo — into a world that now encompasses both Greek and Roman mythology. As action-packed and funny as Percy Jackson. Essential for young fans of mythology and adventure.
The Passion According to G.H.
57.00 ₾ ?The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (Penguin Modern Classics) — her most celebrated novel. The killing of a cockroach precipitates G.H.’s complete dissolution of self and a near-mystical confrontation with the nature of existence. Written in Lispector’s extraordinary spiralling prose — one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. Trans. Idra Novey.
Steppenwolf
58.00 ₾ ?Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Penguin Modern Classics) — the tormented intellectual Harry Haller, divided between the human and the wolfish, encounters the forces that might liberate him. First published in 1927 and a counterculture classic in the 1960s — one of literature’s most searching investigations into the divided self. Trans. Basil Creighton.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
56.60 ₾ ?Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag (Penguin Modern Classics) — the debut collection that launched her career. From ‘In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’ to the culture-defining ‘Notes on Camp’, these essays demonstrate Sontag’s extraordinary critical intelligence. Published in 1966 and still essential.
Orientalism
55.00 ₾ ?Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Penguin Modern Classics) — one of the most influential works of the twentieth-century humanities. Said’s argument that Western Orientalism served imperial interests rather than neutral knowledge inaugurated postcolonial studies and permanently changed thinking about the relationship between knowledge and power. First published in 1978.
Nausea
56.60 ₾ ?Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Penguin Modern Classics) — the novel that launched existentialism as a cultural movement. Antoine Roquentin’s diary records his overwhelming confrontation with the meaningless facticity of existence — the existentialist vocabulary at its most vivid and accessible. First published in 1938. Trans. Robert Baldick.
Henry and June
46.00 ₾ ?Henry and June by Anaïs Nin (Penguin) — the unexpurgated diary from 1931–32, when Nin met Henry Miller and June in Paris. The first fully candid account of female sexual experience written by a woman for herself — a vivid portrait of the Paris literary world and an essential document of female autobiography.
The Myth of Sisyphus
56.60 ₾ ?The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — the foundational text of absurdist philosophy. Confronting the absurdity of existence — our need for meaning in a meaningless universe — Camus arrives at his celebrated answer: one must imagine Sisyphus happy. Brief, brilliant, and enduringly useful.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
61.50 ₾ ?The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (Penguin) — an investigation into the nature and meaning of modern work across ten very different occupations. What do we seek from work? What does it give us? What does it cost? Illustrated throughout with commissioned photographs by Richard Baker.
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
94.00 ₾ ?Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum (Penguin) — the authoritative account of how Soviet communism was imposed on Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. Focusing on Poland, Hungary, and East Germany, it shows exactly how civil society was destroyed and totalitarian control established. Deliberate, violent, actively resisted — and essential reading.
Meditations
32.00 ₾ ?Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Penguin Classics) — the private journal of the Emperor of Rome. Stoic reflections on what is in our power, the impermanence of things, and the obligation to act justly. Two thousand years old and still one of the most useful works of philosophy ever written. Translated by Maxwell Staniforth.
Regarding the Pain of Others
46.00 ₾ ?Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag (Penguin) — her final essay, revisiting the argument about war photography from On Photography. Ranging from Goya to digital journalism, it asks whether images of atrocity tell the truth and whether shock survives repetition. Brief, authoritative, and essential.
The Republic
73.80 ₾ ?The Republic by Plato (Penguin Classics) — one of the most important texts in Western thought. Home to the Allegory of the Cave, the concept of philosopher-kings, and the foundational critique of democracy. Two and a half millennia old and still indispensable. Desmond Lee’s standard translation.
The Idiot
53.00 ₾ ?The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Penguin Classics) — Dostoevsky’s attempt to portray a truly good man in a corrupt world. Prince Myshkin’s Christ-like innocence collides with the self-destructive Nastasya and the passionate Rogozhin in a novel of extraordinary psychological intensity. Trans. David Magarshack.
Selected Poems
63.00 ₾ ?Selected Poems by Lord Byron (Penguin Classics) — essential Byron, from the early poems that made him famous to the mature brilliance of Don Juan. Includes ‘Childe Harold’, the Hebrew Melodies, and key passages from his comic masterpiece. The ideal introduction to one of Romanticism’s most dazzling voices.
Gulag: A History
75.00 ₾ ?Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Penguin) — the Pulitzer Prize-winning definitive account of the Soviet forced labour camp system. Eighteen million prisoners, millions of deaths — traced from Lenin to Khrushchev with the authority of a historian and the compulsive readability of a journalist. Essential reading.
The Consolations of Philosophy
55.00 ₾ ?The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton (Penguin) — six great philosophers applied to six modern sources of unhappiness. Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche each offer a different remedy for our most common sorrows. Intelligent, witty, and genuinely useful.
The Secret History
73.80 ₾ ?The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin) — the debut novel that invented the dark academic genre. Richard Papen’s entanglement with a secretive group of Greek students at a Vermont college ends in murder. Rich, seductive, and atmospherically perfect — one of the most gripping thrillers of its generation.
The Ten Types of Human
55.00 ₾ ?The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias (Vintage) — a human rights barrister uses evolutionary psychology and neuroscience to identify ten fundamental human responses to extreme situations. Moving between international courts and cutting-edge science, it asks what makes us capable of both cruelty and compassion. Remarkable science writing.
The Prince
41.00 ₾ ?The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Vintage) — the 1513 political masterpiece that inaugurated modern political science. Machiavelli’s stark account of how power is acquired and maintained, separated from conventional morality, remains one of the most famous and influential short texts in the history of ideas.
As I Lay Dying
56.60 ₾ ?As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Vintage) — told through fifteen narrators as the Bundren family transports their dead matriarch for burial. A formally brilliant, darkly comic masterpiece of American modernism, written in six weeks with concentrated power. One of literature’s great experiments in narrative voice.
The Sound and the Fury
54.00 ₾ ?The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Vintage) — a masterpiece of American modernism. The Compson family’s decline is told through four radically different perspectives, beginning with the fragmented consciousness of Benjy. Technically dazzling, emotionally devastating, and one of the most important American novels ever written.
The Sound of Waves
54.00 ₾ ?The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima (Vintage) — the most lyrical and accessible of his novels. A tender love story set on a small Japanese island, inspired by the ancient Greek romance Daphnis and Chloe, it is suffused with natural beauty and animated by Mishima’s characteristic luminosity. An ideal introduction to one of the twentieth century’s great writers.
The Mysterious Island
25.00 ₾ ?Jules Verne’s masterful blend of science fiction, mystery, and adventure follows five Civil War prisoners stranded on an uncharted island. This Wordsworth Classics edition delivers the complete story of survival, scientific ingenuity, and human determination. A gripping tale that combines detective elements with thrilling action sequences, exploring themes of resourcefulness and camaraderie against impossible odds.
Northanger Abbey
25.00 ₾ ?Jane Austen’s charming tale of Catherine Morland, a young woman whose love of gothic horror tales leads to romantic misadventures and social mishaps. Northanger Abbey brilliantly satirizes both gothic fiction and the mate selection rituals of Georgian society, while exploring the experiences of young women navigating complex family relationships and romantic trials with Austen’s trademark wit and keen social observation.
In a Glass Darkly
38.00 ₾ ?Sheridan Le Fanu’s haunting collection of Victorian supernatural tales follows Dr. Hesselius’s patients as they encounter vampires, malignant spirits, and drug-induced living death. These five masterful ghost stories blur the lines between reality and nightmare, showcasing the psychological horror that made Le Fanu a pioneer of English occult fiction and supernatural literature.
Classic Victorian Edwardian Ghost Stories
38.00 ₾ ?Enter the shadowy realm of Classic Victorian Edwardian Ghost Stories featuring legendary authors Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Dickens. This Wordsworth Editions collection showcases unquiet souls and supernatural encounters, including Man-Size in Marble from the 2024 A Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation. Essential classic literature blending American horror tales with masterful Victorian storytelling.
Njál’s Saga
36.00 ₾ ?Experience one of Iceland’s greatest literary achievements with Lee M. Hollander’s masterful translation of Njál’s Saga. Written around 1280, this extraordinary medieval masterpiece offers authentic insights into Norse society, packed with vivid details of everyday life and ancient social structures. A thirteenth-century chronicle of earlier centuries, this Wordsworth Classics edition preserves a vanished world of honor, loyalty, and tradition that continues to captivate readers today.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
36.90 ₾ ?T. E. Lawrence’s unflinching memoir of the Arab Revolt against Turkish forces during World War I. Written between 1919 and 1926, this powerful account reveals the brutal realities of desert warfare while exploring Arab, Bedouin, and Wahhabi cultures. Lawrence’s vivid prose captures both the romance and horror of the Middle Eastern campaign, from acts of cruelty to the chaotic aftermath in Damascus, creating an essential historical document.
Pilgrim’s Progress (Classics of World Literature)
37.00 ₾ ?John Bunyan’s immortal allegory takes readers on Christian’s epic pilgrimage from the Shadow of Destruction to the Celestial City. Through the Slough of Despond, Valley of the Shadow of Death, and Vanity Fair, this masterpiece of Christian fiction explores the profound challenges of spiritual life with timeless wisdom and compelling narrative power.
Madam Crowls Ghost Other Stories
43.50 ₾ ?Sheridan Le Fanu’s masterful collection of supernatural tales that Henry James deemed ‘ideal reading for the hours after midnight.’ Originally published in The Dublin University Magazine, these haunting stories showcase the gothic horror master’s sinister atmosphere and psychological depth. Selected for their enduring power to chill modern readers, Madam Crowl’s Ghost & Other Stories represents Victorian supernatural fiction at its atmospheric peak, demonstrating why Le Fanu remains influential in horror literature today.
Man in the Iron Mask
29.00 ₾ ?Alexandre Dumas delivers the epic finale to his Musketeers saga in Man in the Iron Mask. When the four heroes discover a masked prisoner who may be France’s true king, they plot the ultimate act of justice against Louis XIV. This Wordsworth Classics edition presents Dumas’ masterful blend of history, political intrigue, and timeless themes of loyalty and sacrifice in an unforgettable tale of royal deception.
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