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Most-linked classics

• Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
• Complete Herbal — Culpeper
• Bibliomania Love Poetry — Collections
• Autobiography, .... — Benjamin Franklin
• Lady Chatterley's Lover — D.H. Lawrence
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Provoked Wife — Sir John Vanbrugh
• Misanthrope — Moliere
• Billy Budd — Herman Melville
• Ulysses — James Joyce
• Country Wife — William Wycherley
• Bonduca — Beaumont and Fletcher

Editor’s Pick

• Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress — Benjamin Franklin's notorious 1745 letter

Some new "must read" Classics from Bibliomania

• Erewhon exceptional anti-utopian satire from Samuel Butler
• The Scarlet Pimpernel thrilling exploits of a suave English hero during the French Revolution
• Mansfield Park the classic Jane Austen novel you should have read but haven't

Articles and Interviews

• Hollywood? Our Movie Hybrid film scripts await
• Time, gentlemen, please. Oliver Francis on a date with the future
• Modernism? Read about its sinister side
• Don't forget! John Clare, the forgotten poet

We Recommend

• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Brand new Study Guides on Bibliomania

• The Rainbow Study Guide by D.H. Lawrence
• Linguistics Study Guide a guide to the controversies of language change
• Fathers and Sons Study Guide by Sergeyevich Turgenev
• On Narcissism Study Guide by Sigmund Freud

Featured Guide

• The Big Sleep Study Guide by Raymond Chandler. A valuable guide to one of the most confusing books of our time: Chandler's classic tale of mobsters and detection. You know the Humphrey Bogart film. Read this and you might just understand it! Another triumphantly enjoyable and enlightening guide from the pen of Oliver Francis. See also his exceptional Brave New World Study Guide and Nineteen Eighty-Four Study Guide

Need an antidote to words?

• Culpeper's Herbal has a complete guide to natural remedies
• Try Soule's Synonyms and Roget's Thesaurus if you are lost for words

Featured Book

• Investigate the ancient possibilities of the once banned Perfumed Garden as translated by Richard Burton.

Politics

• Bush and Blair beware, you too can be a political rotter with Machiavelli's The Prince
• Alternatively, commune with Karl Marx and read Das Kapital