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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9781840227949
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death,... -
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9781853267802
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.54With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace. 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to... -
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781853261046
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.54Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 9781840221985
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.74Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable... -
Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781840220995
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.49Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group... -
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 9781853260490
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.49Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however,... -
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 9781853261824
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.67With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and... -
The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence 9781853262500
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.67With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and... -
Twas The Night Before Christmas and Other Christmas Stories Rosemary Gray 9781840226515
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68Editedby Rosemary Gray Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world... -
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit 9781853261244
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.54Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes... it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur... and it had hands and feet like a... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9781853264856
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $5.37The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a... -
Dubliners by James Joyce 9781853260483
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.35Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners... -
The Odyssey Homer 9781853260254
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781853260957
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of... -
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 9781853260278
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.76With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after... -
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9781853264191
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll.Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her... -
Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9781853264153
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among... -
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 9781853260919
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781840224009 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $1.68With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case... -
Animal Farm (Collector's Edition) George Orwell 9781840228779
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or... -
Persuasion by Jane Austen 9781853260568
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.49Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne... -
Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome 9781853260513 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $2.84Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best... -
Les Miserables Volume One by Victor Hugo 9781853260858 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $3.22With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862). One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a... -
The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence 9781853264177 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $3.23With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the... -
Carmilla And Other Pleasing Terrors by Sheridan Le Fanu 9781840229714
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68Selected and Introduced by Dr Stephen Carver. 'Sometimes it was as if warm lips kissed me, and longer and longer and more lovingly as they reached my throat, but there the caress fixed itself. My... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781853264825 [USED COPY]
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $3.23Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.49With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It... -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.54Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of... -
The Collected Short Stories of Saki Hector Hugh Munro 9781853260711
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.35'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the... -
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.05The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $5.21Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of... -
The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from... -
Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner 9781840221695
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.67When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers... -
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781840227543
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.67Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9781853261916
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.49With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds... -
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 9781853262579
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.54With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of St Andrews. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth... -
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 9781853260100
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $4.54Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of... -
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781853261756
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from... -
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 9781840227970
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781840224313
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.68Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of...