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Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all... -
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 9781847494788
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78This collection of Pushkin's stories begins with 'The Queen of Spades', perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Resurrection of the Gods by Dmitry Merezhkovsky
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance's greatest figure traces Leonardo's early development as an artist and court figure to his final years in exile, portraying his loves and... -
Diaries and Selected Letters by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful... -
Parasha and Other Poems by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78One of the pillars of nineteenth-century Russian prose fiction alongside towering figures such as Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev started his writing career as a poet, gaining much... -
Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16Described by Herman Melville as being "as deep as Dante", 'Young Goodman Brown' is set during the Salem witch trials and features the sort of narrative ambiguities and troubling uncertainties over... -
Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac 9781847497734
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.90An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under... -
The Touchstone: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages) Edith Wharton 9781847497932
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.90Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn,... -
Death in Venice: New Translation (Alma Classics Evergreens) Thomas Mann 9781847499370
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $13.99As the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author who has recently been ennobled in recognition of his literary achievements, arrives in Venice for a holiday and checks into his Lido hotel, he is... -
Selected Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his... -
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue... -
The Garden Party and Collected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the... -
The Idiot: New Translation Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847493439
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted... -
A Game of Chess and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats... -
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego... -
The Grey Parrot and Other Stories by W. W. Jacobs
Booksplease Price: $21.47W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In 'The Grey Parrot', a sailor... -
After-Supper Ghost Stories by Jerome K. Jerome
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $16.28As they relax after dinner on Christmas Eve, the members of a family and their guests turn to telling ghost stories. These ghoulish accounts range from the melancholy to the macabre, and get... -
The Diary of a Nobody: New Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) George Grossmith 9781847495273
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78A new annotated edition of 'the funniest book in the world' (Evelyn Waugh). It features Weedon Grossmith's hilarious illustrations and contains notes, a bibliography and extra material. -
Three Years by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.90On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of... -
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847498830
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining... -
The Green Dwarf and Other Early Fiction by Charlotte Bronte
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created, together with her siblings, a series of tales set in the imaginary realm... -
The Looking Glass and Other Stories: New Translation of this unique edition of thirty-four other short stories by Chekhov, some of them never translated before into English. by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9781847493729
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $15.42Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating... -
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf 9781847498908
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16It is a variable early summer's day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote village in the very heart of England. The local community is all astir,... -
Poems from the Moor by Emily Bronte
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16"Though Earth and moon were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every Existence would exist in Thee." From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the... -
The White Guard: New Translation by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.68Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances... -
Burmese Days by George Orwell 9781847498809
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16In the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory - a thirty-something English teak dealer - leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat... -
Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on... -
Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.26First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil able relationships. At the centre of the story... -
A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote: New Translation by Thomas Mann 9781847499363
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $18.92Only edition in printWritten immediately after his return from his first trip to America in June 1934, A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote follows the author's observations about life aboard a Dutch... -
As I Please: Annotated Edition George Orwell 9781847499387
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $19.66Only edition in printFULLY ANNOTATED EDITION (Contains 545 detailed notes)After leaving his job with the BBC Eastern Service in November 1943, George Orwell became literary editor of Tribune... -
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $17.49Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good,... -
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16Saddened with his country's loss of freedom, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university student Jacopo Ortis can only find some comfort in the company of his... -
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim 9781847497215
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $13.52Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters - the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester - respond to an... -
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 9781847496447
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge... -
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $19.18This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrator's early life up to his university days, each episode told through the perceptions, points of view and emotions felt by the... -
Incest by Marquis de Sade
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $13.52When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming... -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy 9781847493637
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small... -
Ulysses: Third edition with over 9,000 notes by James Joyce
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $17.49This third edition, newly revised and updated, includes comprehensive and all-new annotations (over 9,000 notes) by Joyce scholar Sam Slote, Trinity College, Dublin, and Marc A. Mamigonian and John... -
The Frozen Deep Wilkie Collins 9781847497673
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.90Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage. Unbeknownst to him, Richard Wardour, his spurned rival, joins the crew of...