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The Duel by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels - on the run from the authorities of his native Venice - around northern Europe, poking fun at the ruling classes he... -
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an... -
Main Street: Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes by Sinclair Lewis
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of... -
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 9781847499059
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Abandoned as an infant and of unknown parentage, Tom Jones is raised in the household of the irreproachable, altruistic Squire Allworthy. Growing up to be a high-spirited, lusty youth, Tom finds... -
On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and... -
Jettatura Theophile Gautier 9781847498359
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under his gaze, and to discover that an Italian suitor, Count Altavilla, is... -
The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.05In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that this small misdemeanour will have a profound impact... -
The Testament and Other Poems: New Translation by François Villon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The most celebrated of French medieval poets, Francois Villon makes poetry out the basest material the raw urban life of Paris with its petty officials, students, clergy, tradesmen, pimps, whores and... -
Humorous Tales by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations - a drunken... -
Peter Schlemihl: Annotated Edition with an introduction by Leopold von Loewenstein-Wertheim Adelbert von Chamisso 9781847499233
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Unsuccessful in his endeavours, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow for the purse of Fortunatus, thereby gaining everlasting riches. But... -
Memoirs of a Hunter Ivan Turgenev 9781847499042
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Turgenev's first major publication, Memoirs of a Hunter is a series of tales based largely on the author's own experiences while hunting on his mother's estate of Spasskoye, where he became aware of... -
Transformation by Mary Shelley
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for revenge. After a mighty storm,... -
Lyrics: Volume 4 (1829-37) by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting... -
Lyrics: Volume 3 (1824-30) by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a lasting influence... -
Prophecies by Leonardo da Vinci
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.09Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, 'The Prophecies' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful, others dire and ominous... -
A Nest of the Gentry: New Translation by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and... -
The Woman in the Case and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov 9781847494757
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic tales - demonstrates Anton Chekhov's mastery of the genre, with stories... -
The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he... -
Vita Nuova: Dual Language by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in... -
Memoirs of a Madman and November by Gustave Flaubert 9781847493255
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.17One of Flaubert's earliest writings, but published only after his death, 'Memoirs of a Madman' presents us with a oung man as he reflects - alternating between musings on the present and memories of... -
The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist 9781847498625
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during... -
Lyrics: Volume 2 (1817-24) by Alexander Pushkin 9781847497321
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting... -
The Pickwick Papers: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Charles Dickens
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Resurrection of the Gods by Dmitry Merezhkovsky
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05This 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The 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... -
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 9781847494788
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05This 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... -
Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac 9781847497734
Booksplease Price: £6.03An 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... -
Parasha and Other Poems by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05One 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Described 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... -
Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Set 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... -
Pushkin's Letters: Annotated Authoritative Edition Alexander Pushkin 9781847499349
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05It is universally acknowledged among Russians that Pushkin is as much their finest letter writer as he is their greatest and most beloved poet. The letters provide the best source of direct... -
The Age of Innocence: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) Edith Wharton 9781847497918
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.58The intelligent and charming Newland Archer - a member of one of New York's most prominent families - is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and... -
The Touchstone: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages) Edith Wharton 9781847497932
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00Stephen 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,... -
Women in Love: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) D.H. Lawrence 9781847498984
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17First encountered in Lawrence's novel The Rainbow, sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are now grown-up women living in the English Midlands at the time of the First World War. Each becomes involved... -
Death in Venice: New Translation (Alma Classics Evergreens) Thomas Mann 9781847499370
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88As 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05During 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... -
The Landlady and Other Stories: Newly Translated and Annotated Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847499318
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Feeling alone and abandoned by everyone, a young man and self-confessed dreamer decides to take to the streets of St Petersburg during one of its long summer nights. As he roams around the empty... -
A Game of Chess and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37When 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... -
Tales from Russian Folklore by Alexander Afanasyev
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of... -
Carmen: Accompanied by another famous novella by Mérimée, The Venus of Ille by Prosper Mérimée
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51When the Basque dragoon Don Jose meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding, he is immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested for injuring a co-worker and he helps her to flee,...