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Complete English Poems (Everyman)
1.  Complete English Poems (Everyman) by John Milton
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  "Get lost in Paradise... Milton is fabulous.  Pure Genius."
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Everything (A Book about Manic Street Preachers)
2.  Everything (A Book about Manic Street Preachers) by Simon Price
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  "The best volume on the most important band in the World"
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Play
3.  Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Play by Christopher Hampton
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  "sex, corruption and hedonistic decadence"
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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
4.  Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley
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  "I found some great poems in here that I'd never read before.  Prozac for the soul"
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Making The News:: An Anthology Of The Newsbooks Of Revolutionary England 1641-1660
5.  Making The News:: An Anthology Of The Newsbooks Of Revolutionary England 1641-1660 by Joad Raymond
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  "This anthology is a fascinating collection of 'Newsbooks' [later to become what we now call 'newspapers'] with useful commentaries.  It's fascinating to see how little the press has actually changed!"
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The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History)
6.  The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History) by Christopher Hill
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  "This superb book endorsing my view that history and literature are, virtually, synonymous."
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The Quantity Theory of Insanity
7.  The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
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  "Simultaneously tragic and comic.  Heart-felt humour can be heartwarming"
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The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Panther)
8.  The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Panther) by W. G. Sebald
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  "Searingly beautiful and thought provoking."
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In the Skin of a Lion (Picador Books)
9.  In the Skin of a Lion (Picador Books) by Michael Ondaatje
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  "Even better than his more famous 'The English Patient'.  I promise this will make you think."
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Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Popular Classics)
10.  Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Popular Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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  "A world in a day and enough to disappear in..."
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Vintage classics)
11.  Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Vintage classics) by William Styron
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  "An honest portrayl of the author's struggles with the daemons of despair.  Title is a quote from Paradise Lost."
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Tender is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics)
12.  Tender is the Night: A Romance (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  "Based on fact, this fiction is a masterpiece... a psychology ahead of its time?"
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L Etranger, L'
13.  L Etranger, L' by Albert Camus
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  "this short novel is best read in French - even if u only 'get' 1/2 of it.  The prose is too poetic 4 a successful translation."
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Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare)
14.  Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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  "Take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them..."
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Maria, or the Wrongs of a Woman
15.  Maria, or the Wrongs of a Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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  "evocative, beautiful and sad.  Beyond bedlam, a woman incarcerated for no good reason..."
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics)
16.  The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics) by Johann Goethe
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  "Apparently this book caused an 'epidemic' of suicides across Europe.  Best read for its literary qualities"
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
17.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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  "'sanity is not statistical' - every good Manics fan must be able to quote from this novel."
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The Holy Bible
18.  The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers
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  "The most profound album ever recorded, listen to the lyrics... political, literary references etc pour out of every line."
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