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The Cuban Cigar Handbook: The Discerning Aficionado's Guide to the Best Cuban Cigars in the World by Matteo Speranza 9781646431069
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.38The most definitive guide to Cuban cigars: The Cuban Cigar Handbook profiles the history of cigars in Cuba and features an extensive guide to over 200 varieties.For more than two centuries, Cuban... -
Spectres of Masculinity: Manhood in Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories, 1860-1914 by Anna S. Berger 9783837679564
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $63.88Why are so many ghost stories narrated by men - and what do these tales reveal about ideas of masculinity? Anna S. Berger explores how Victorian and Edwardian supernatural fiction reflects anxieties... -
Being Kipling by William B. Dillingham 9780230609112
Booksplease Price: $91.14Being Kipling exposes Rudyard Kipling s identity as he himself perceived it through the lens of a collection of works composed over a period of years and brought together in the volume Land and Sea... -
Anthology Year 5 (Treasure House) by 9780008160487
Booksplease Price: $26.21This beautifully illustrated anthology is a indispensable collection of extracts from well-loved children's books. Featuring fiction from Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling as well... -
England A. N. Wilson 9781906011215
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.63This is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. England, as every fan of... -
Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics Isobel Armstrong 9781032475769
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as 'a moralised form of romantic verse' and unearthed its often... -
John Donne: The Critical Heritage: Volume II by A. J. Smith 9780415755900
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $45.34Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra... -
A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia by Fred Burnaby 9781108037587
Booksplease Price: $92.78It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travellers. He... -
My Boy Jack by David Haig
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War. The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent. Rudyard Kipling's determination to send his severely... -
John Donne: The Critical Heritage: Volume II A.J. Smith 9780415074452
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $156.59Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra... -
The Book of Dog Poems by Ana Sampson
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48I like a dog at my feet when I read,whatever his size or whatever his breed.A dog now and then that will nuzzle my handAs though I were the greatest of men in the land,And trying to tell me it's... -
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Professor Simon Dentith 9780521123570
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $69.56In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith... -
The Widening World of Children's Literature by S. Ang 9781349400928
Booksplease Price: $176.59This book looks at the changing shape of children's literature in English from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular it examines the dialect between 'enclosure' and 'exposure',... -
Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature by Jessica Straley 9781107566811
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $69.56Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After... -
Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature by Jessica Straley 9781107127524
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After... -
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America by Stephanie Gorton 9780062796653
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $25.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062796653Author Stephanie GortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
The Clive Cussler Adventures: A Critical Review by Steven Philip Jones 9780786478965
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $54.37The author of more than 50 books--125 million copies in print--Clive Cussler is the current grandmaster of adventure literature. Dirk Pitt, the sea-loving protagonist of 22 of Cussler's novels,... -
The Jungle Book: A Pop Up Adventure by Matthew Reinhart
Booksplease Price: $49.67In this stunning retelling of a phenomenal classic, honor is tested, battles of good over evil are waged, and the importance of family reigns supreme. True to Rudyard Kipling's original story, tree... -
Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900 by Charles Alan Johanningsmeier 9780521520188
RRP: $79.95Booksplease Price: $78.18Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Stephen Crane, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling,... -
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde & Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson 9781454959045
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.48What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope... -
Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siecle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act by David Glover 9781107022812
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90The 1905 Aliens Act was the first modern law to restrict immigration to British shores. In this book, David Glover asks how it was possible for Britain, a nation that had prided itself on offering... -
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $21.63The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable... -
How the Just So Stories Were Made: The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children by John Batchelor
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $21.65A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic"In this concise and remarkable book . . . Batchelor guides us expertly . . ... -
Chicago in Quotations by Stuart Shea
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $11.06'I have struck a city- a real city - and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages,' so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From... -
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson 9781435172241
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope... -
The Wolf's Story: What Really Happened to Little Red Riding Hood by Toby Forward
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.64The real story of Little Red Riding Hood - told by the Wolf himself!Recounted in the confidential, conversational voice of a New York wheeler-dealer, this funny version of the Grimm Brothers' Little... -
Death at Rottingdean: A Victorian Mystery (5) Robin Paige 9780857300218
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Lord and Lady Sheridan (Charles is now Baron of Somersworth) have taken a house for a few quiet weeks in the late summer of 1897, in the sea-coast village of Rottingdean. Long known as Smugglers'... -
How the Elephant Got His Trunk by Anna Milbourne 9781835404058
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.32Rudyard Kipling's classic 'Just So' story, retold for young readers. According to this much-loved fable, elephants didn't always have long trunks - that is, until one day when the elephant's child... -
![The Nation's Favourite: Twentieth Century Poems by Griff Rhys-Jones 9780563551430 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5016925/5016142/9780563551430__94601.1722804199.jpg?c=1 "The Nation's Favourite: Twentieth Century Poems by Griff Rhys-Jones 9780563551430 [USED COPY]")
The Nation's Favourite: Twentieth Century Poems by Griff Rhys-Jones 9780563551430 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $2.44This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and... -
Usborne English Readers Level 3: The Jungle Book by Mairi MacKinnon 9781474925495
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $9.28A little boy escapes from a hungry tiger, and becomes part of a family of wolves. Mowgli grows up in the jungle, learning the animals' ways - but where does he really belong?Includes a word list, 5... -
Dogs: A Literary Anthology by Catherine Bradley 9780712357760
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $31.67'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends'. - Alexander PopeThroughout the history of writing, dogs have captivated their owners with their loyalty and playfulness... -
The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts by Donald E. Morse 9780313278143
Booksplease Price: $149.78The Celebration of the Fantastic reaffirms the wide range and validity of the subject, treatment, and approach that the fantastic demands. Twenty-five essays, selected from among the more than 230... -
The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre by Harold Orel 9780521135481
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $69.52This book is a study of the development of the Victorian short story, which by the 1890s and the appearance of the Sherlock Holmes stories, had become the most popular literary product of the late... -
Austen's Couples: Early Romances (Frederic & Elfrida, Jack & Alice, Edgar & Emma, Henry & Eliza) Jane Austen 9781804471470
RRP: $9.75Booksplease Price: $9.01Jane Austen, one of the nation's most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across... -
Dog Poems by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89If you believe that a dog is man's - and woman's - best friend, this is the anthology for you: six hundred years of reflections on the virtues (and some of the vices) of canine kind. Within these... -
Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision by Laurence Kitzan 9780313317781
Booksplease Price: $149.19Writers of imperial fiction in the period 1840-1914 created a strong image of the British Empire that was often confused with the empire as it actually existed. Even in the 1940s, many people in... -
Poems for Happiness by Richard Coles 9781035063079
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.86Discover the many faces of happiness in this inspiring collection of poems, which includes work by some of the world’s greatest poets.Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of... -
Publishing, Editing, and Reception: Essays in Honor of Donald H. Reiman by Michael Edson 9781611495782
Booksplease Price: $201.65Publishing, Editing, and Reception is a collection of twelve essays honoring Professor Donald H. Reiman, who moved to the University of Delaware in 1992. The essays, written by friends, students, and... -
The Shadow in The Corner & Other Classic Ghost Stories Marcus Clapham 9781035034901
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.63Ghost stories reached the height of popularity in the late nineteenth century and this collection offers a fine selection of ghostly tales from that time. Many of the contributors are amongst the... -
Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard 9781529053425
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06A beautiful gift edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales featuring five classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations.Follow Little Red through the woods, where she...