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1	Great Gatsby more books like this by F Scott Fitzgerald When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure--a phenomenon the high ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £1.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Catcher in the Rye more books like this by J D Salinger J. D. Salinger's famous and enduring chronicle of Holden Caulfield's journey from innocence to experience is the quintessential coming-of-age novel--though it's an unusual one, in which the hero tries to cling to the simplicity of childhood, achieving a kind of maturity almost in spite of himself. As the novel begins, Holden runs away from his ... see all copies from £1.47! new only from £3.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Pride & Prejudice more books like this by Jane Austen It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel was rejected, revised, retitled, and finally published--anonymously--in 1813, only four years before Austen's untimely death. In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £1.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	To Kill a Mockingbird more books like this by H Lee TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is about the crisis of human behavior and conscience arising from the racism and prejudice that exist in the small Southern town during the Depression. Scout Finch, age 8, who lives with her brother, Jem, and their lawyer father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama, tells the story of her father's defense of Tom Robinson, a young ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £5.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Scarlet Letter more books like this by Nathaniel Hawthorne This is part of a series called "Bloom's ReViews", which are college-level study guides prepared under the aegis of Harold Bloom, distinguished Yale professor and author of "The Western Canon". Each guide includes an introductory essay by Bloom as well as extracts from renowned scholars on key topics in the work. Good for independent study and ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £1.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Odyssey more books like this by Homer Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others. see all copies from £1.16! new only from £1.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Hamlet more books like this by William Shakespeare Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge, first enacted in London in 1602. Young Prince Hamlet, in mourning for his dead father, receives an apparition of his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother Claudius, who then assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Intent on revenge, Hamlet ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £1.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Grapes of wrath more books like this by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Brave New World more books like this by Aldous Huxley A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography. see all copies from £1.16! new only from £3.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Their Eyes Were Watching God more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston's now-classic novel about Janie Crawford, the granddaughter of an ex-slave, and her three husbands: Mr. Killicks, Mayor Starks and, finally, Tea Cake--the love of her life. The novel is set in a black community in rural Florida, and the characters speak in dialect--a technique that inspired both anger and praise from other black ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Prince more books like this by Niccolo Machiavelli In his most famous work, THE PRINCE (Il Principe), Machiavelli described the ideal prince and encouraged the people of Italy to imagine what it might be like if such a person led a unified Italy. Written in 1513 and published posthumously in 1532, THE PRINCE has been interpreted both as a genuine handbook for potential rulers and as a satirical ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £1.16! \| first editions
12 view cover	Of Mice & Men more books like this by John Steinbeck Steinbeck tells the classic story of three days in the lives of two migrant workers, Lennie Small and George Milton. Lennie, a simple-minded giant who doesn't know his own strength, wants only to settle down with his friend on a small farm where he will be allowed to feed the animals. When he inadvertently kills first a puppy, then a woman--the ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £2.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Canterbury Tales more books like this by Geoffrey Chaucer The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £2.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Animal Farm more books like this by George Orwell Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. see all copies from £1.16! new only from £3.32! \| first editions
15 view cover	Romeo & Juliet more books like this by William Shakespeare Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595, and first published in a 1597 edition, as transcribed by actors who had performed it. Other editions appeared later, but even the more authoritative versions, such as that of 1599--probably drawn from Shakespeare's own ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £1.33! \| first editions
16 view cover	Old Man and the Sea more books like this by Ernest Hemingway In language of great simplicity and power, Hemingway tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck--he hasn't caught a fish in 84 days--who goes out in his small skiff one more time. This time he hooks a huge marlin. During his relentless ordeal, a long and agonizing battle with the marlin far out in the Gulf Stream, the old man ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	One Hundred Years of Solitude more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez A beguiling mix of politics, magic, romance, and sex, the saga of the mysterious history of the Buendia family of the village of Macondo does nothing less than recapitulate the entire history of the human race. Written with little regard for traditional novelistic conventions, Garcia Marquez's novel incorporates emotional responses in lieu of plot ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £5.51! \| first editions
18 view cover	Farewell to Arms more books like this by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's second full-length novel, published in 1929, calls on his own experiences during World War I, when he worked for the Red Cross in Italy, was wounded after only six weeks on duty, and recuperated in a hospital in Milan, where he had a romance with a nurse. The blend of fact and imagination in A FAREWELL TO ARMS, however, is artful; ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	1984 more books like this by George Orwell George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his ... see all copies from £2.14! new only from £3.46! \| first editions
20 view cover	A Wrinkle in Time more books like this by Madeleine L'Engle (Performed by) A classic battle of good versus evil as well as a reflection on the value of being true to oneself and the power of love and faith, A WRINKLE IN TIME is the first book in the Time Quartet series. Meg Murry, the daughter of two brilliant scientists, is a socially awkward 12-year-old who has trouble fitting in at school. Her closest friend is her ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Catch-22 more books like this by Joseph Heller Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ... see all copies from £2.12! new only from £3.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Atlas Shrugged more books like this by Ayn Rand Rand's 1200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of "rational self-interest" has been a steady seller since it was published in 1957. see all copies from £4.92! new only from £5.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Fountainhead more books like this by Ayn Rand Ayn Rand's bestseller tells the story of a staunchly individualist architect (based on Frank Lloyd Wright) who combats the collectivist (i.e., mediocre) impulses of his fellow Americans. The book is both a compulsively readable, steamy novel and an articulation of Rand's views. see all copies from £2.96! new only from £4.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	All Quiet on the Western Front more books like this by Erich Maria Remarque Remarque's famous novel about a soldier's experiences in World War I. see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Sun Also Rises more books like this by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway's great post-World War I novel, his first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation," is a vivid exploration of the moral wasteland of Europe in the Twenties, and of the sterility and despair of postwar life. His hero, Jake Barnes, has suffered a war injury that has left him impotent. Hopelessly in love with the ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £5.22! \| signed copies \| first editions

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