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Phantom of the Opera (Collector's Edition) Gaston Leroux 9781840228878
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28'... the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan...' Erik, the Phantom of the... -
Anne of Avonlea (Collector's Edition) Lucy Montgomery 9781840228526
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Anne of Avonlea continues Anne's story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible... -
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (Collector's Edition) Hans Christian Andersen 9781840228625
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes,... -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Library Collection) William Shakespeare 9781840228960
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.27William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello... -
The Wizard of Oz (Collector's Edition) by L. Frank Baum 9781840228670
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781853264610
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.88Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 9781840228823
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about... -
Between Two Worlds: The Weird Tales of Arthur Machen by Stephen Carver 9781840228489
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23Selected and introduced by Stephen Carver 'Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen.’ – H.P. Lovecraft. There... -
The Ultimate Children's Box Set by Kenneth Grahame 9781840228687
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.47This boxset contains seven of most popular novels ever written for children (and many adults). They are beautifully packaged in a rigid, matt-laminated slipcase, complete with strikingly attractive,... -
The Best Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling 9781853261794
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early... -
Alice in Wonderland (Luxe) by Lewis Carroll 9781840229301
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are... -
Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Empress Collection) Sally Minogue 9781840229165
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.29Wuthering 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,... -
Persuasion by Jane Austen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most... -
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay... -
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 9781853260650
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. 'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer... -
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 9781853262913
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it... -
Moonfleet (Exclusive) by wilkie Collins
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.59When 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... -
Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott 9781853262531
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised... -
This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to... -
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship... -
De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts... -
Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel Jerome K. Jerome 9781853260513
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Introduced 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... -
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir... -
The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known... -
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9781853260995
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza 9781840221190
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.88Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was... -
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 9781853260223
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781853267758
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the... -
Orlando by Virginia Woolf 9781853262395
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 9781840221985
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.76Jane 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... -
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781840221862
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.54Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence 9781853264696
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.88With an Introduction by Angus Calder. As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First... -
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 9781853260070
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan. Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula... -
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 9781853260490
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99Introduction 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,... -
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 9781853262463
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With an Introduction and Notes by Charles P.C. Pettit. Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of... -
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu 9781853264719
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.88Translated with Notes by Arthur Waley. With an Introduction by Robert Wilkinson. Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism... -
Complete Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens 9781853267345
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept,... -
Dubliners by James Joyce 9781853260483
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99Introduction 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: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With 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... -
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 9781853260407
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the...