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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9781840227567
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.19A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot... -
Fables Aesop 9781853261282
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9781840227819
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot... -
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 9781853262715
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.49Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9781853267338
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.62With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9781840228373
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and... -
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 9781853261213
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates... -
100 Selected Stories O. Henry 9781853262418
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9781853260155
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9781853260230
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.73Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9781840228342
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.41Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and... -
Crime and Punishment: With selected excerpts from the Notebooks for Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781840224306
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever... -
For The Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War by Stephen Carver 9781840229356
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell... In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire and blood. Despite the memoirs,... -
The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781853267482
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781840224337
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying... -
Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a... -
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell 9781840226829
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.38The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual... -
The Plays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 9781840224184
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit,... -
Collected Poems 1934-1952 by Dylan Thomas 9781840228465
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them 'Do not go gentle into that good night',... -
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 9781840228328
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty,... -
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'...man is not truly one, but truly two.' In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided... -
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781853260612
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First... -
Dracula by Bram Stoker 9781840228366
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.03'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the... -
Dracula by Bram Stoker 9781853260865
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks... -
Animal Farm by George Orwell 9781840228038
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or...