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The Collected Stories by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short... -
Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection... -
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In 'Sweet Bird of... -
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis by Kasia Boddy
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It... -
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.65William Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This... -
In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.08Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid... -
Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen 9781857150513
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later,... -
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 9780140442427
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the... -
Rick Steves London (Twenty-fifth Edition) Gene Openshaw 9781641715546
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.72Now more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through London. From the sacred stones of Westminster Abbey to the top of the London Eye, the... -
Tess Of The D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 9781857150339
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A... -
Rubbish Pet Portraits by Hercule van Wolfwinkle 9780008468163
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.08**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A hilarious collection of Hercule Van Wolfwinkle's 'extremely realistic' pet portraits. Warning: may not be suitable... -
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York TimesFew writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with... -
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54The Penguin English Library editionMany readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be... -
Persuasion (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health, Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years... -
Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Antonio's Revenge, The Tragedy of Hoffman, The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 9780141192482
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Part 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,... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9780141393391
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.52One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These... -
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780141187815
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by... -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780141198927
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.36The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth... -
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 9780141185101
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $7.33Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780141194097
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to... -
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 9780141023571
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own... -
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9780141198934
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.80The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'Hardy's... -
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith 9781784876791
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780141185576
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he... -
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781857150353
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9780141439679
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.51'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of... -
La Regenta by John Rutherford 9780140443462
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when... -
Bewitched And Haunted by 9781841597669
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82In time for this year's Halloween revels comes a horrible array of spectres and sorcerers, ghosts and demons, hags and apparitions. From Homer and Horace via Pope and Poe to Graves and Hardy, Poems... -
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Mark Musa
Booksplease Price: $12.93The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same... -
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $7.91The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants... -
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had... -
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Charlotte Bronte
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.61One of the best novels ever written, in a chic new deluxe editionOrphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life... -
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Charles Dickens
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.12A graphic deluxe edition to mark the 150th anniversary of Dickens's most well-loved novel. A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet... -
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.06Kipling's best-loved work, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile... -
Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature by Paulo Coelho
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind... -
Nova Express: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.35The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the... -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9780141199009
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9780143122494
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas ever since it was first published in December 1843. Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer... -
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith 9781784876777
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other!...