Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that…

As a young man struggling to find his voice...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a...

I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.
In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a...

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If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer.

In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an...

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Our life is what our thoughts make...

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The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have...

'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words'

Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and...

Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on...

Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its starting...

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars...
First published in 1855, and edited, revised and...

We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is no England. Our ways are not your ways, and they shall be to you many strange...

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Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in...

Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking...

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Jane Eyre is one of the great romantic heroines of world literature.
Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich...

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick...

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The movements of his mind seemed to tend to...

"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade...

A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century 'puritan New England...

When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon,...

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Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of...

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
One of Shakespeare's most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a...

The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.
'Why had I not...

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Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal...

In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the...

Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that...
As a young man struggling to find his voice...