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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas 9780241746264
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.2490 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLuminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor... -
Dark Night: Poems and Selected Prose by John of the Cross 9780241699294
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.60The profound, hugely influential exploration of spiritual growth and transformation, from one of the great Spanish mystics and poets 'Oh living flame of love,how tenderly you scorch me'The poetry of... -
Hell by Dante 9780241752159
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.2490 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLay down all hope, you that go in by me . . .Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of blood, lies the... -
No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Brontë 9780241746769
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.2490 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksYes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure.In this new selection... -
Buzz Words: Poems about Insects by Howard Schechter
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting,... -
Written Lives by Javier Marias
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling... -
The People Opposite by Georges Simenon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.'Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of... -
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 9780241341339
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.01'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish... -
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.01'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it'A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the... -
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 9780241654149
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a day's work...There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.'s underworld - but... -
The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'An indispensable writer ... Calvino, possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams to life' Salman RushdieThe difference between life and... -
The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.50In two remarkable historical novels, Mary Renault fashions from the myth of Theseus a convincingly flawed hero and weaves a thrillingly plausible account of the Labyrinth and the infamous Minotaur... -
The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat: The Life of Ra Lotsawa by Ra Yeshe Senge 9780142422618
Booksplease Price: $32.02The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat tells the story of Ra Lotsawa Dorje Drak. Though canonized as a saint and a fully enlightened buddha, the eleventh-century Ra Lotsawa's life story presents a... -
The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories by Andreas Karkavitsas
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.80A landmark selection of the works one of the greatest Greek writers of the twentieth centuryStripped of their ancestral lands and persecuted by other proud dynasties, the once illustrious... -
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel' New York Review of BooksSitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his... -
Les Miserables Victor Hugo 9781846140495
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.90Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected... -
Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray SextonWhen Anne Sexton took her own life... -
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and... -
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young womanThea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful... -
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 9780141192420
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $23.58Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb 9780143106111
Booksplease Price: $23.91Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, "Paths of Glory" explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's... -
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 9780241752388
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.2490 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity... -
The Seventh Voyage by Stanislaw Lem 9780241752265
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $10.0690 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksJourney into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure in 'The Seventh Voyage' are... -
Ghost Stories by M. R. James
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.94'Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled to rest'The aim of a good ghost story is to make the blood freeze, pleasurably, and this M. R. James... -
Daisy Miller and Other Tales by Henry James 9780141389776
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.64A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new. Daisy Miller is one of... -
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 9780141439617
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah WatersThe original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's... -
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun 9780241747285
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.2490 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksArrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from... -
Passion by June Jordan 9780241752425
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.2490 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'we are the ones we have been waiting for'These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break open the... -
Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $5.85'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?That's dreadful too.'The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.Introducing Little Black... -
Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.28The great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction, published in a new English translation - the first since the Victorian era - that puts the sex back in Pleasure.Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian... -
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen 9780241341124
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.94'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland... -
Selected Short Fiction by Charles Dickens
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In... -
Haunted Castles by Ray Russell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of "Sardonicus," "Sanguinarius," and... -
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? William Shakespeare 9780241252192
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.'This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best.One... -
X-Men by Stan Lee 9780143135760
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $60.78Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesThe seeds of a pop-cultural phenomenon were sown with... -
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming 9780241689363
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDuring the Second World War Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence,... -
The Penguin Book of the Undead by 9780143107682
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern... -
The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.24"The Book of Mormon" is one of the most influential - as well as controversial - religious documents in American history, and is regarded as sacred scripture by followers around the world, including... -
Notes from Underground; the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9780140442526
Booksplease Price: $18.56"Notes from Underground" (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of...