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All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780141396262
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time' Ben Jonson A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen William Shakespeare 9780241200568
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Considered by Thomas de Quincey to be 'perhaps the most superb work in the language', The Two Noble Kinsmen is set in Athens and was co-written by Shakespeare with John Fletcher. This Penguin... -
The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge 9780140184327
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.23In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140441291
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to... -
Three Restoration Comedies by Sir George Etherege
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit... -
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are... -
Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo 9780241372609
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth centuryWhen vain, obsessive and guilt-ridden Zeno Cosini seeks help for his neuroses, his... -
Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb by Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutionsMemoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and... -
Volpone and Other Plays by Ben Jonson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who... -
The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9780141182711
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics.More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 9780143108245
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood... -
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence 9780140183771
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul'... -
The School for Scandal and Other Plays by Richard Sheridan 9780140432404
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And... -
The Miser and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780140447286
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9781857151978
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his... -
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 9781857151602
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37In his last completed novel, published in 1864-5, Dicens confirmed his reputation as a story-teller of genius while extending the sphere of his imagination to new worlds. Like all Dickens' novels,... -
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering... -
The Book of Evidence & The Sea John Banville 9781841593678
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-... -
The Penguin Book of English Verse by P. J. Keegan
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet... -
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of... -
The Erotic Poems by Ovid
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores,... -
A Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A... -
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of... -
Romances: The Last Plays by William Shakespeare
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.71Completing the 8 volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare series, this final volume contains Shakespeare's four Last Plays - THE TEMPEST, PERICLES, THE WINTER'S TALE AND CYMBELINE. The... -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9781784877712
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom... -
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker 9780552779524
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURNSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2017 'Skilful . . . daring . . ... -
Collected Stories Franz Kafka 9781857151459
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new... -
Complete Shorter Fiction Herman Melville 9781857152326
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a... -
Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller 9780140447118
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.12This dramatic story recounts Mary, Queen of Scots's remaining days held captive in Fotheringay Castle. In scenes alternating between Mary's prison and Elizabeth's court at Westminster, Schiller's... -
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 9781857152807
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and... -
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781857152548
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs by Jonathan Law
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Entertaining and informative, this rich and diverse collection of over 6000 proverbs (and their origins) is a delight to browse and the perfect addition to any home reference shelf.About the... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an... -
The General in his Labyrinth Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781857152821
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the... -
New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient... -
The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #15 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling... -
Poems by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classic' 128...