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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9781631066450
RRP: $33.54$25.00"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." -William Shakespeare Arm yourself with this volume from the Knickerbocker Classics series, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, including 16 comedies, 10 histories, 12... -
Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes 9780393617474
$22.61This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator's... -
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino,... -
News from Nowhere and Other Writings by William Morris
RRP: $12.89$9.17Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the... -
Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People by Elias Loennrot
RRP: $16.76$12.51'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York TimesSharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of a nation... -
Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx by Karl Marx
RRP: $19.34$14.13Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. During his eleven years writing for the New York Tribune (their collaboration began in... -
The Major Works by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $18.05$14.10This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Johnson's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by essays,... -
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends,... -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake
RRP: $14.18$10.02Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the... -
A Swansea Anthology by James A. Davies 9781854114488
$24.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114488Author Dylan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 320g -
Italian Short Stories by Raleigh Trevelyan
RRP: $14.18$10.02The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are... -
Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary of Life in Vichy France by Leon Werth
RRP: $43.85$31.75Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the... -
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust 9780198744894
RRP: $11.60$8.32'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely' Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the... -
Stories from a Fractured City Tales of Two Londons by Claire Armistead
RRP: $12.89$8.77London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: $16.76$12.24In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day,... -
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 2 by Anthony Powell
RRP: $25.80$18.43Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to... -
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
RRP: $38.70$27.09The Writer's Map winner of Trade Illustrated category in the British Design and Production AwardsPhotography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2019Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the... -
Three Gothic Novels by Horace Walpole
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings.This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The... -
Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Penguin Group (UK)
RRP: $14.18$10.02This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Spanish and in English translation. Including stories by Fuentes, Molinas, Marquez and Cortazar, this volume gives a... -
Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing by James Joyce
RRP: $14.18$10.28'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history,... -
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Peter Wortsman
RRP: $16.76$12.51'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray
RRP: $15.47$9.79London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is... -
The Unforgivable: And Other Writings by Cristina Campo 9781681378022
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378022Author Cristina CampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: $12.89$9.17As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.'Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of... -
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
RRP: $16.76$11.73Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo,... -
Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore by W. B. Yeats
$15.80A classic collection of Irish fairy tales and lore by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and poet W. B. Yeats Originally published as two separate volumes in 1800s, this premier collection of Irish stories edited and compiled W. B. Yeats is the perfect... -
The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek 9781529096248
RRP: $14.18$9.03The Gardener's Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden... -
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Etoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
RRP: $21.92$15.84'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant'Independent When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: $10.31$7.47Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Hong Kong (2nd ed) by Ray Tipper 9781913679088
RRP: $16.76$11.73A fully updated second edition of this introductory identification guide to the 279 bird species most likely to be seen in Hong Kong, including every species classified as Abundant, Common or Uncommon in the Hong Kong Bird Report. High quality... -
English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255573
RRP: $16.76$10.94'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the... -
Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments by Dinara Mirtalipova
RRP: $24.50$18.27Rediscover the magic of Russian folktales in a breathtaking illustrated edition. This collection of traditional stories will sweep you away to the birch forests and ornate palaces of Russia. You'll meet a mysterious girl born from the snow, a... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $14.18$9.44Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at... -
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $19.34$17.72The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins... -
Major Works by John Clare
RRP: $15.47$11.15This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters... -
Mr and Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One by Sharon Lathan 9781402215230
$17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402215230Author Sharon LathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 424gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780393696875
$14.73This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1890 (Lippincott's Magazine) version and the 1891 (book) version of the novel. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to comparatively read and... -
The Collected Poems: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust 9780143106906
RRP: $21.92$19.49As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of thirty-eight, he never stopped writing poetry. His verse is often playful, filled with affection and satire, and is peppered... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: $14.18$10.02"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
England Your England by George Orwell 9781913724689
RRP: $6.45$5.50George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding...