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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer... -
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 9781847498595
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.62When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social... -
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 9781847495860
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.81After a wonderful early life as a young colt on Farmer Gray's meadows, the stallion Black Beauty is sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall and joins the gentleman's stables. While his existence is no... -
Eugene Onegin: A New Translation by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.81When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet... -
Plays: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their... -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9781847497161
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the... -
Lassie Come-Home Eric Knight 9781847495785
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But when the family falls on hard times, Sam is forced to sell his dog to... -
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.62After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro's Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout... -
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Leblanc
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77A battle of wits between the nimblest French thief and the shrewdest British detective This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the... -
The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fi reworks, their parents replace it with a second-hand one. Upon unfurling it, the children fi nd an egg... -
Night and Day: Annotated Edition Virginia Woolf 9781847498694
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets' Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William... -
The Complete Peter Pan by Sir J. M. Barrie
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.36The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary Darling's bedtime stories for her children and makes covert night-time... -
Middlemarch by George Eliot 9781847496041
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.37The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting... -
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781847498199
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather like a princess, with trunks full of the finest clothes. Yet, despite... -
Tales from Shakespeare by Mary Lamb
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare's plays for children. While making sure that the pieces were accessible for a younger audience,... -
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 9781847498632
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small... -
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 9781847494160
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and... -
The Railway Children E. Nesbit 9781847496010
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside... -
Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.73Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate... -
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9781847496300
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.38Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9781847494955
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships... -
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 9781847498076
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.45"Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy's fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of... -
The Peter Rabbit Stories: Contains 77 colour illustrations by Anna Currey and a glossary for young readers by Beatrix Potter 9781847499127
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This collection brings together in a single volume the four books that feature the famous young rabbit with the blue jacket and a penchant for mischief and disobedience: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The... -
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781847494214
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the... -
Paradise by Dante Alighieri 9781847496478
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of... -
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9781847498793
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.91Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as "humbug". One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he... -
Flappers and Philosophers by Scott F. Fitzgerald
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in... -
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847493095
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces - the most notable of which is the novella-length 'May Day' - with more fanciful... -
The Canterbury Tales: Fully Annotated Edition by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each... -
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.09"There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway. Nevertheless, if you live in Moscow and have a brain in your head, you'll pick up reading willy-nilly, and... -
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 9781847495976
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries,... -
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins 9781847498397
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.82An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls ill and dies in a decaying Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a... -
A Young Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and... -
A Paradise Lost by John Milton
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 9781847496713
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.35The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and a source of great profit to those professionally engaged in it. Held... -
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9781847497840
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationships between all life forms, both present and extinct,... -
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 9781847496294
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.82The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible... -
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 9781847498779
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.59In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged estate agent George F. Babbitt appears to have achieved the American dream to its fullest: he is successful at work, comfortably off, exceedingly... -
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 9781847493774
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.36When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the...