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Classics to keep you company during lockdown

Here are ten books to help you cope with the lockdown, whether through sharing stories with friends, inventing ingenious contraptions, resisting loneliness, choosing alternative infections or falling in love at a safe social distance.

Henry Eliot is the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics and the author of The Penguin Classics Book.

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