 | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $4.50 The English language at its perfect form
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 | Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics) by John Keats
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $9.00 The only romantic poet who was actually a poet instead of philosopher, social critic and/or revolutionary.
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 | Mansfield Park (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.40 Vintage Jane Austen: a meticulous look at the class structure of 19th century England.
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 | Under Western Eyes (Broadview Editions) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: $17.50 / Used from: $24.79 An honest and poignant look at politics and politicians
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 | Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.59 Cervantes' satire is actually an easy entertaining read
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 | Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $1.53 Okay, so Oprah liked it as well -- it's still a good book.
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 | Daniel Deronda (Modern Library Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: $8.58 / Used from: $1.37 George Eliot's classic study of ethnicity and identity
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.45 The world is meaningless, and that's just fine.
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 | East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $11.25 Melodramatic and long, but I did finish it one sitting
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 | Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $35.34 A really good book that Reese Witherspoon had to destroy in a really bad movie
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 | King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.21 Shakespeare at his very best
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 | Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 A brilliant character study of a manic depressive in tights
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 | Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Burke
Buy used from: $2.97 Edmund Burke: the best prose writer in the English language
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 | The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.24 Camus at his most insightful and profound
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