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• Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'

  
  
   

• A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945

  Anonymous

  
  
   

• Quartered Safe Out Here

  George MacDonald Fraser

  
  
   

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

  Robert M. Pirsig

  
  
   

• The Letters of Pliny the Younger (Penguin Classics)

  Pliny the Younger

  
  
   

• The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)

  Oscar Wilde

  
  
   

• The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)

  Peter Abelard, Abbess of the Paraclete Heloise

  
  
   

• Letters of Ted Hughes

  Ted Hughes

  
  
   

• Letters to a Young Poet

  R M Rilke

  
  
   

• The Diaries of Samuel Pepys - A Selection (Penguin Classics)

  Samuel Pepys

  
  
   

• The Rise and Fall of Athens (Penguin Classics)

  Plutarch

  
  
   

• The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)

  Margery Kempe

  
  
   

• Conversations of Socrates (Classics)

  Xenophon

  
  
   

• Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

  Florence Nightingale

  
  
   

• Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics)

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery

  
  
   

• The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)

  Giorgio Vasari

  
  
   

• The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin Classics)

  Jean-Jacques Roussea

  
  
   

• Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics)

  Suetonius

  
  
   

• The Origin of Species (Oxford World's Classics)

  Charles Darwin

  
  It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.

  To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.

  Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T. H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin, Amazon.com

  
   

• On the Way Home

  Laura Ingalls Wilder