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Sepulchres and Other Poems: Dual Language by Ugo Foscolo
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in... -
The Adolescent: New Translation Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847494993
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel... -
Smoke by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana... -
The Art of Sinking in Poetry by Alexander Pope
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.04Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they... -
London Bridge by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War. Picking up where its... -
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.51One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert... -
The Story of a Nobody Anton Chekhov 9781847498618
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $10.86A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the... -
Catastrophe and Other Stories by Dino Buzzati 9781847497369
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $11.31This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati - author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature -... -
The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov 9781847493576
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an... -
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the... -
The Abyss and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07As the young Zinaida and her sweetheart, the student Nemovetsky, stroll through the idyllic Russian countryside, their memories, dreams and thoughts about life and the future mingle in the evening... -
Childhood Memories and Other Stories by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 9781847493989
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the... -
The Last of the Belles by Scott F. Fitzgerald
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Inspired by Fitzgerald's own courtship of his future wife Zelda, 'The Last of the Belles' centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of... -
Diaboliad and Other Stories: New Translation by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42In Bulgakov's 'Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out... -
The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by The Tail by Pablo Picasso
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.34In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such... -
Histoires Naturelles by Jules Renard
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07A delightful variation on the long tradition of bestiary writing, Jules Renard's short verse and prose poems have captured the imagination of readers and artists since they were originally written in... -
A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.75Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house... -
The Gods Want Blood by Anatole France
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, 'The Gods Want Blood' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a young painter who becomes a juror on a local... -
All The Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the... -
The Pat Hobby Stories Scott F. Fitzgerald 9781847493859
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary... -
The Love Boat and Other Stories by Scott F. Fitzgerald
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the... -
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by Scott F. Fitzgerald
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, 'Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful... -
Sonnets: Dual Language by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.92Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Belli's sometimes scandalous sonnets deal with life's elementals:... -
Memories of London by Edmondo De Amicis
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which... -
The Same Old Story: New Translation by Ivan Goncharov
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary... -
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.94One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and... -
Rime: Dual Language and New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42This collection of Dante Alighieri's lyrics charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his Vita nuova and Divine Comedy developed. Inspired in his early poems by troubadour love... -
Tales of Adventures and Medical Life by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.88Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes some of his best short fiction outside of the Sherlock Holmes canon. As... -
Complete Poems: Dual Language by Guido Cavalcanti 9781847492944
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.92Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations... -
Image on the Heart and Other Stories by Scott F. Fitzgerald
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in France. After she and her benefactor become close, she agrees to marry him... -
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to... -
The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo 9781847498700
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.86A first-person diary of a prisoner's final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo's poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the... -
The Theatre and its Double by Antonin Artaud 9781847493323
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.07First published in 1938, The Theatre and Its Double is a collection of essays detailing Antonin Artaud's radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and lack... -
Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his wife Tatyana, who intends to emigrate to the West with their daughter... -
Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories: New Translation Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov 9781847493873
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $11.82Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on... -
Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 9781847496393
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74Anne is an orphan with a penchant for daydreaming and distinctive flaming-red hair that catches the eye of everyone she meets. She is overjoyed to be sent to Green Gables, the Cuthberts' farm, which... -
Money by Emile Zola
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.33Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother,... -
Secretum by Francesco Petrarch
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.04By writing what he called a "secret book" - taking the shape of a conversation between himself and St Augustine - Petrarch aimed to compose a cathartic text which would alleviate his spiritual crisis... -
An Uncommon Story by Ivan Goncharov
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.46Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as "the real heir to Nikolai Gogol". But the publication of Turgenev's first full-length... -
The Thousand and One Ghosts by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that...