1001 Books you must read before you die
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Metamorphoses | Ovid, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney | 9780199537372 | |
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Nadja | Andre Breton, Richard Howard | 9780141180892 | |
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Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford | 9780099577065 | |
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Quicksand | Nella Larsen | 9780486451404 | |
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Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh | 9780141180908 | |
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Quartet | Jean Rhys | 9780141183923 | |
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The Well of Loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | 9780141191836 | |
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D. H. Lawrence | 9780007925551 | |
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Orlando | Virginia Woolf, Margaret Reynolds, Peter Ackroyd | 9780099478287 | |
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Story of the Eye | Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel | 9780141185385 | |
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Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Kostova, Elizabeth Kostova | 9780241215746 | |
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Les Enfants Terribles | Jean Cocteau | 9780099561378 | |
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The Sound And The Fury | William Faulkner | 9781857150698 | |
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Harriet Hume | Rebecca West | 9781844085842 | |
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The Last September | Elizabeth Bowen, Victoria Glendinning | 9780099276470 | |
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Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Doeblin, Michael Hofmann | 9780141191621 | |
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All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque, Maurice Del Bourgo | 9781911238232 | |
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Cakes And Ale | W. Somerset Maugham, Nicholas Shakespeare | 9780099282778 | |
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The Glass Key | Dashiell Hammett | 9781409138044 | |
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The Waves | Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint, Kate Flint, Kate Flint | 9780141182711 | |
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The Radetzky March | Joseph Roth, Joachim Neugroschel | 9780141393421 | |
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The Thin Man | Dashiell Hammett | 9780241962527 | |
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To The North | Elizabeth Bowen | 9780099287766 | |
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Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 9780241951514 | |
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Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 9781784877750 | |
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Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Ralph Manheim | 9781847492401 | |
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A Scots Quair | Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Tom Crawford | 9781847672681 | |
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The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins, Sophie Wilkins | 9781447289432 | |
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Testament Of Youth | Vera Brittain | 9780349005928 | |
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein | 9780141185361 | |
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Murder Must Advertise | Dorothy L Sayers | 9781473621381 | |
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The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts | Nathanael West | 9780099573166 | |
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Call it Sleep | Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin | 9780141188652 | |
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Thank You, Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse | 9781841591278 | |
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Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9781847497383 | |
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A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh | 9780241970553 | |
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Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 9780141399133 | |
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The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain | 9780752864365 | |
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Novel with Cocaine | M. Ageyev | 9780810117099 | |
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The Threepenny Opera | Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Ralph Manheim, John Willett | 9780413390301 | |
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The Nine Tailors | Dorothy L Sayers | 9781473621398 | |
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Burmese Days | George Orwell | 9780141395432 | |
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England Made Me | Graham Greene | 9780099286172 | |
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The House in Paris | Elizabeth Bowen | 9780099276487 | |
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Horace McCoy | 9781788165907 | |
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Mr Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood | 9780099771418 | |
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Auto Da Fe | Dr Elias Canetti | 9781843432586 | |
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Independent People | Halldor Laxness, John Freeman | 9781841593975 | |
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Nightwood | Djuna Barnes | 9780571235285 | |
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Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes, Tom Lathrop | 9781847493774 | |
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Robinson Crusoe and the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 9781472913920 | |
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Roxana | Daniel Defoe, John Mullan | 9780199536740 | |
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Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 9780141196640 | |
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Pamela | Samuel Richardson, Thomas (Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English, Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English, St Anne's College, Oxford) Keymer, Alice (DPhil candidate on Richardson English, DPhil candidate on Richardson English, St Anne's College, Oxford) Wakely | 9780199536498 | |
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Tom Jones | Henry Fielding, Doreen Roberts, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781853260216 | |
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The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole, Nick Groom | 9780198704447 | |
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Evelina | Frances Burney | 9780140433470 | |
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Peter France | 9780140443639 | |
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Cecilia | Fanny Burney, Peter Sabor, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Anne Doody | 9780199552382 | |
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120 Days of Sodom | Marquis de Sade | 9780983884255 | |
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Jacques the Fatalist | Denis Diderot, Michael Henry, Martin Hall, Martin Hall | 9780140444728 | |
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The Nun | Denis Diderot, Russell (Lecturer in French, University of Leeds) Goulbourne | 9780199555246 | |
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Elective Affinities | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, R. J. Hollingdale | 9780140442427 | |
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen, Alexander McCall Smith | 9780099589334 | |
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Emma | Jane Austen, Andrew Motion | 9780099589273 | |
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Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott, Caroline McCraken-Flesher, A. N. Wilson | 9780451472854 | |
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Ormond | Maria Edgeworth, John Banville | 9780862813505 | |
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Persuasion (Seasons Edition -- Summer) | Jane Austen | 9780785234562 | |
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The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | 9781847498069 | |
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The Red and the Black | Stendhal, Roger Gard | 9780140447644 | |
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Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens, Philip Horne | 9780141192499 | |
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The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal, Richard Howard, Robert A. Parker | 9780679783183 | |
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The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Ackroyd | 9780141190624 | |
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Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham, Patricia Ingham | 9780140436143 | |
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The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas, Jacques Le Clercq | 9780679603320 | |
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Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas, Lou Cameron | 9781910619919 | |
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Charlotte Bronte | 9780143106159 | |
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte | 9781847497277 | |
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Mary Barton | Elizabeth Gaskell, Dr Sally Minogue, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781840226898 | |
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Shirley | Charlotte Bronte, Dr Sally Minogue, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781853260643 | |
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Moby Dick | Herman Melville, Judith John | 9781787557901 | |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dr Keith Carabine, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781840224023 | |
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Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 9781788283076 | |
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Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) | Charles Dickens | 9781784873431 | |
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The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 9780141389431 | |
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Silas Marner | George Eliot | 9781847498304 | |
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Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn | 9780199536047 | |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures Under Ground | Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel | 9781847494078 | |
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Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Oliver Francis | 9781509827749 | |
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne | 9780008296490 | |
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The Last Chronicle of Barset | Anthony Trollope | 9780241258026 | |
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Phineas Finn, The Irish Member | Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland, John Sutherland | 9780140430851 | |
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Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert, Louise Bogan | 9780486452333 | |
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War And Peace | Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, Orlando Figes | 9780241265543 | |
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Spring Torrents | Ivan Turgenev, Leonard Shapiro | 9780140443691 | |
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Devils | Fyodor Dostoevsky, A.D.P. Briggs, Constance Garnett, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781840220995 | |
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The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories | Nikolai Leskov | 9780099577362 | |
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Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 9781847496300 | |
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The Red Room | August Strindberg | 9781909408517 | |
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Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Maxim Larin, Tony Evans | 9781911091059 | |
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The House by the Medlar Tree | Giovanni Verga, Raymond Rosenthal, Giovanni Cecchetti | 9780520048508 | |
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy, Kirsten Lodge, Kirsten Lodge | 9781554813223 | |
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King Solomon's Mines | H. Rider Haggard, Full Cast, David Sturzaker, Tim McInnerny | 9781785296079 | |
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Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson, Louise Walsh | 9781529048728 | |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 9780345804013 | |
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She | H. Rider Haggard | 9780140437638 | |
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Fortunata and Jacinta | Agnes Gullon, Benito Perez Galdos | 9780140433050 | |
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The Saga of Goesta Berling | Selma Lagerloef, George C. Schoolfield, Paul Norlen | 9780143105909 | |
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News from Nowhere | William Morris | 9780500519394 | |
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Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 9781847498076 | |
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The Time Machine | H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder | 9780141439976 | |
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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley | 9781636371160 | |
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The Island of Dr Moreau | H.G. Wells | 9781847496591 | |
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Fruits Of The Earth | Andre Gide | 9780099437833 | |
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The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | 9780008190071 | |
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The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 9780141199047 | |
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Turn of the Screw | James Henry | 9781784287054 | |
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The Stechlin | Theodor Fontane, William L. Zwiebel | 9781571135735 | |
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Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann | 9781857151077 | |
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Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad, Catherine Anyango | 9781906838096 | |
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The Wings of the Dove | Henry James | 9780812967197 | |
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The Immoralist | Andre Gide, Dr David Watson | 9780141182995 | |
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The Golden Bowl | Henry James, Ruth Yeazell | 9780141441276 | |
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Hadrian The Seventh | Fr. Rolfe | 9780940322622 | |
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Strait is the Gate | Andre Gide, Dorothy Bussy | 9780141185248 | |
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Three Lives | Gertrude Stein, Ann Charters | 9780140181845 | |
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Impressions of Africa | Raymond Roussel, Rayner Heppenstall, Lindy Foord | 9780714548586 | |
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Howards End | E M Forster, Alfred Kazin | 9781857150254 | |
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Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence | 9781847497536 | |
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell, Lionel Kelly, Dr Keith Carabine, Tony Benn | 9781840226829 | |
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Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 9780141036533 | |
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Locus Solus | Raymond Roussel, Rupert Copeland Cuningham | 9780714544564 | |
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Kokoro | Natsume Soseki | 9780143106036 | |
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The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 9780140011302 | |
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The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence | 9780486817200 | |
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Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | 9780099284963 | |
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The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf | 9780099982906 | |
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Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford, Bill Hutchings | 9781857543001 | |
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin | 9780140449709 | |
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Under Fire | Gordon Brown, Henri Barbusse | 9780486836065 | |
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Growth of the Soil | Knut Hamsun, W. Worster | 9780285648784 | |
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Summer | Edith Wharton | 9780241422243 | |
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Women in Love | DH Lawrence | 9781788881906 | |
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Main Street | Sinclair Lewis, Martin Bucco | 9780140189018 | |
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The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton, Rachel Cusk | 9781509890033 | |
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The Fox | D.H. Lawrence | 9781847496942 | |
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Ulysses | James Joyce, Professor Cedric Watts, Dr Keith Carabine | 9781840226355 | |
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Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 9780099264712 | |
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Aaron's Rod | D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins | 9780521272469 | |
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The Life And Death Of Harriett Frean | May Sinclair | 9780860681069 | |
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The Glimpses of the Moon | Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton | 9781844083541 | |
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The Enormous Room | E. E. Cummings, Susan Cheever, George James Firmage | 9780871409287 | |
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The Garden Party | Katherine Mansfield | 9780241341643 | |
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Antic Hay | Aldous Huxley | 9780099458180 | |
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Cane | Jean Toomer | 9780143133674 | |
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Zeno's Conscience | Italo Svevo, William Weaver | 9780241372609 | |
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A Passage to India | E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra | 9780141441160 | |
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The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 9781857152890 | |
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Billy Budd | Herman Melville | 9780810111134 | |
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The Professor's House | Willa Cather | 9780486845289 | |
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The Counterfeiters | Andre Gide, Dorothy Bussy | 9780140180930 | |
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The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9781509826360 | |
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Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 9780241261798 | |
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Manhattan Transfer | John Dos Passos, Jay McInerney | 9780141184487 | |
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The Plumed Serpent | D. H. Lawrence, L. D. Clark | 9780521294225 | |
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The Good Soldier Svejk | Jaroslav Hasek | 9781857151510 | |
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The Castle | Franz Kafka | 9781857151275 | |
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Blindness | Henry Green | 9781564782656 | |
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The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 9780743297332 | |
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Tarka the Otter | Henry Williamson, Jeremy Gavron | 9780141190358 | |
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To The Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 9781857150308 | |
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Remembrance of Things Past | Monsieur Marcel Proust | 9780571207602 | |
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Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse, David Horrocks | 9780141192093 | |
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The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy, J W Cunliffe | 9781420957990 |