The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
By: Robert Tressell
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
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1. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
2. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
3. Amok and Other Stories
By: Stefan Zweig , Anthea Bell
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions;… read more
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4. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against pois… read more
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5. The Old Wives' Tale
By: Arnold Bennett
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in… read more
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6. Harriet Hume
By: Rebecca West
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harriet Hume's unchanging beauty and commitment to her art stand in stark contrast to Arnold Condor… read more
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7. The Foundation Pit
By: Mirra Ginsburg , Andrei Platonov , Andrey Platonov
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
The Foundation Pitportrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundati… read more
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8. The Cadaver Game (Wesley Peterson, #16)
By: Kate Ellis
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When the decaying body of a murdered woman is discovered, DI Peterson has difficulties establishing… read more
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9. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The wild Cevennes region of France forms the backdrop for the pioneering travelogue 'Travels with a… read more
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10. Night and Day
By: Virginia Woolf , Julia Briggs
3.76
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between… read more
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"She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ..."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?"-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?"-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
11. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
By: Robert Tressell
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
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12. Manhattan Transfer
By: John Dos Passos
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transferis an "expressionistic … read more
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13. The Book of Daniel
By: E.L. Doctorow
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents knock on the Bronx apartment door of a Communist … read more
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14. The Glass Key
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages,
Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of S… read more
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15. La Débâcle (Les Rougon-Macquart, #19)
By: Émile Zola , Robert Lethbridge , None
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle(1892) takes as its subject the drama… read more
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16. Half of the Human Race
By: Anthony Quinn
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, sacrifice, suffrage and county cricket, projected against a vivid backdrop of Engl… read more
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17. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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18. Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1)
By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally… read more
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19. Love on the Dole
By: Walter Greenwood
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grind… read more
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20. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
By: Nigel Slater
3.69
Format: 496 pages,
'My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance acr… read more
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21. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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22. The Condition of the Working Class in England
By: Friedrich Engels
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the bes… read more
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23. The Old Curiosity Shop
By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more
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24. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
25. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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26. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
27. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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28. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
29. But What Can I Do?
By: Alastair Campbell
3.87
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more
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30. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
By: Mark Hodkinson
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and … read more
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31. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
By: Sophie Rickard
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Tressell's groundbreaking socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the sto… read more
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