The titles on offer include Jane Eyre, Gulliver’s Travels, Anna Karenina, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Twelve Years a Slave.
A total of 100 titles are being offered by Penguin Classics, with secondary schools able to by sets of 30 copies of each of the titles for £3,000 – £1 each. All the titles are by authors who died before 1946 and are therefore out of copyright.
Mr Gibb wants schools to use the books as part of whole-class reading sessions, especially in the first years of secondary school.
He said: “It is important that all pupils in secondary school are taught to read and enjoy challenging books from among the world’s greatest literature.
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