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 Weatherley Parade

    Weatherley Parade

    Richmal Crompton

  2. Book cover for Weatherley Parade

    Weatherley Parade

    Richmal Crompton

  3. Book cover for Frost at Morning

    Frost at Morning

    Richmal Crompton

  4. Book cover for Frost at Morning

    Frost at Morning

    Richmal Crompton

  5. Book cover for Linden Rise

    Linden Rise

    Richmal Crompton

  6. Book cover for Linden Rise

    Linden Rise

    Richmal Crompton

  7. Book cover for Westover

    Westover

    Richmal Crompton

  8. Book cover for Westover

    Westover

    Richmal Crompton

  9. Book cover for Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

  10. Book cover for Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte

  11. Book cover for The Happy Prince & Other Stories

    The Happy Prince & Other Stories

    Oscar Wilde

  12. Book cover for The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde

  13. Book cover for The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays

    The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays

    Oscar Wilde

  14. Book cover for Around the World in Eighty Days

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Jules Verne

  15. Book cover for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Jules Verne

    Édouard Riou

  16. Book cover for Journey to the Centre of the Earth

    Journey to the Centre of the Earth

    Jules Verne

    Édouard Riou

  17. Book cover for Madensky Square

    Madensky Square

    Eva Ibbotson

  18. Book cover for The Man Without Qualities

    The Man Without Qualities

    Robert Musil

  19. Book cover for The Time Machine

    The Time Machine

    H. G. Wells

  20. Book cover for The War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds

    H. G. Wells

  21. Book cover for The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth

    Edith Wharton

  22. Book cover for London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

    London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

    Rosemary Gray

  23. Book cover for Complete Ghost Stories

    Complete Ghost Stories

    M. R. James

  24. Book cover for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce

  25. Book cover for Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  26. Book cover for Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

  27. Book cover for Poems for Travellers

    Poems for Travellers

    Gaby Morgan

  28. Book cover for Silence

    Silence

    Shusaku Endo

  29. Book cover for Dr Finlay's Casebook

    Dr Finlay's Casebook

    A. J. Cronin

  30. Book cover for Irish Ghost Stories

    Irish Ghost Stories

    David Stuart Davies

  31. Book cover for Moby-Dick

    Moby-Dick

    Herman Melville

  32. Book cover for The Phantom of the Opera

    The Phantom of the Opera

    Gaston Leroux

  33. Book cover for Tales and Poems

    Tales and Poems

    Edgar Allan Poe

  34. Book cover for Tales of Mystery and Imagination

    Tales of Mystery and Imagination

    Edgar Allan Poe

  35. Book cover for Walden

    Walden

    Henry David Thoreau

  36. Book cover for Diary of a Provincial Lady

    Diary of a Provincial Lady

    E. M. Delafield

  37. Book cover for The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    Homer

  38. Book cover for Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    Victor Hugo

  39. Book cover for Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    Charles Dickens

  40. Book cover for A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

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