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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780140449266
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.25The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If... -
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 9781444723250
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and... -
Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater: Bilingual edition by Franz Kafka
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212662Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as... -
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in... -
The Weird And The Eerie by Mark Fisher
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.50What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the... -
Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding... -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the... -
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.07In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. ... -
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the... -
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century'... -
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.95This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from... -
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.33'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a... -
Hunger by Knut Hamsun 9780192862846
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.43'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man... -
The Swann Way by Proust 9780198871521
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels... -
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.03Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is... -
The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature by Victoria Owens 9781399056618
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In 1926, Tom Rolt who was then sixteen years old, abandoned his public school education. Having taken a job with a small firm of agricultural engineers, he realised that he had found his life’s... -
Germinal by Emile Zola 9780199536894
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780199535989
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.79'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry... -
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense by Robert M. Alter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of... -
Summary and Analysis of 1984: Based on the Book by George Orwell by Worth Books 9781504046800
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046800Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World by Dorian Lynskey 9781529095937
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'A brilliant, scholarly, sharp and witty account of our weird eternal obsession with the end times... So enjoyable, that I didn't want it to end - the world, or the book.' - Adam Rutherford, author... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.18'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident... -
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud 9780520064430
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems,... -
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel by Peter Weiss
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time... -
Sybil: or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli 9780198759898
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
Booksplease Price: £16.07This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer,... -
Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life by Judith Viorst 9780684867632
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867632Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 79Imprint < -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.61By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty... -
The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle by Colin Duriez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in... -
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary... -
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.85"Groundbreaking in its call to reconsider our approach to the slow rhythm of time in the very concrete realms of environmental health and social justice." -Wold Literature TodayThe violence wrought... -
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Peter Porter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973),... -
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.20'he thought it expedient and necessary that he should commence knight-errant, and wander through the world, with his horse and arms, in quest of adventures' Don Quixote, first published in two... -
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renée Bergland 9780691235288
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was... -
The Collected Peter Pan by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780198878384
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.07'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in... -
John Keats by John Keats 9780571328765
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold 9780199538744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate...