Classics

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Five lesser-known classics from your favourite authors.

Classic books to read at least once in your lifetime

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  1. Book cover for Enchanted Tales & Happily Ever Afters

    Enchanted Tales & Happily Ever Afters

    Macmillan Collector's Library

  2. Book cover for The Daughter of Time

    The Daughter of Time

    Josephine Tey

  3. Book cover for The Franchise Affair

    The Franchise Affair

    Josephine Tey

  4. Book cover for Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    Hugh Thomson

  5. Book cover for Emma

    Emma

    Jane Austen

    Hugh Thomson

  6. Book cover for Sense and Sensibility

    Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen

    Hugh Thomson

  7. Book cover for Treasures of Cornwall: A Literary Anthology

    Treasures of Cornwall: A Literary Anthology

    Luke Thompson

  8. Book cover for Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape

    Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape

    David Stuart Davies

  9. Book cover for The Peacock Spring

    The Peacock Spring

    Rumer Godden

  10. Book cover for Goblin Market & Other Poems

    Goblin Market & Other Poems

    Christina Rossetti

    Laurence Housman

  11. Book cover for On Your Marks

    On Your Marks

    Martin Polley

  12. Book cover for Our Place in Nature

    Our Place in Nature

    Zachary Seager

  13. Book cover for No Place Like Home

    No Place Like Home

    Michèle Mendelssohn

  14. Book cover for The Greengage Summer

    The Greengage Summer

    Rumer Godden

  15. Book cover for An Unsuitable Attachment

    An Unsuitable Attachment

    Barbara Pym

  16. Book cover for Kane and Abel

    Kane and Abel

    Jeffrey Archer

  17. Book cover for Women of the Harlem Renaissance

    Women of the Harlem Renaissance

    Marissa Constantinou

  18. Book cover for Black Voices on Britain

    Black Voices on Britain

    Hakim Adi

  19. Book cover for Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind

    Margaret Mitchell

  20. Book cover for All the Pretty Horses

    All the Pretty Horses

    Cormac McCarthy

  21. Book cover for The Crossing

    The Crossing

    Cormac McCarthy

  22. Book cover for Cities of the Plain

    Cities of the Plain

    Cormac McCarthy

  23. Book cover for No Country for Old Men

    No Country for Old Men

    Cormac McCarthy

  24. Book cover for The Enchanted April

    The Enchanted April

    Elizabeth von Arnim

  25. Book cover for The Red Tent

    The Red Tent

    Anita Diamant

  26. Book cover for Funeral Readings and Poems

    Funeral Readings and Poems

    Becky Brown

  27. Book cover for Standing Her Ground

    Standing Her Ground

    Harriet Sanders

  28. Book cover for Blood Meridian

    Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy

  29. Book cover for The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    James Weldon Johnson

  30. Book cover for Christmas Poems

    Christmas Poems

    Carol Ann Duffy

  31. Book cover for The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

    The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

    Maurice Leblanc

  32. Book cover for Sleepily Ever After

    Sleepily Ever After

    Zachary Seager

  33. Book cover for The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland

    The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  34. Book cover for Prelude & Other Stories

    Prelude & Other Stories

    Katherine Mansfield

    Meg Jensen

  35. Book cover for Greyfriars Bobby

    Greyfriars Bobby

    Eleanor Atkinson

  36. Book cover for Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    Robert Louis Stevenson

  37. Book cover for Pygmalion & Other Plays

    Pygmalion & Other Plays

    George Bernard Shaw

  38. Book cover for Wedding Readings and Poems

    Wedding Readings and Poems

    Becky Brown

  39. Book cover for Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell

  40. Book cover for Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell