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Moonfleet (Exclusive) by wilkie Collins
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.63When 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: £4.99Booksplease 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: £4.24With 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: £4.24Introduced 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: £4.24Edited, 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: £4.85With 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: £4.99Booksplease 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: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With 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: £3.35With 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... -
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 9781853261947
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.54With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating... -
Pollyanna & Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter 9781840226751
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good... -
Little Women & Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott 9781853261169
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New... -
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 9781840224191
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard... -
The House of the Dead / The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781840226294
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and... -
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 9781840226379
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the... -
Heidi Johanna Spyri 9781853261251
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It has been filmed and televised several times. It... -
Mother Goose Arthur Rackham 9781853261466
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Traditional rhymes and stories have been collected under the wing of Mother Goose for centuries and this collection of favourite nursery rhymes has been put together by the famous illustrator Arthur... -
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 9781853261589
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.50Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy... -
Hamlet William Shakespeare 9781853260094
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Edited, 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... -
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare 9781853264160
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With an Introduction by Tim Cook. Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are... -
The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence D.H. Lawrence 9781853264177
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With 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... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Goverment by John Locke 9781840227321
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.18Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding... -
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Jane Austen 9781840220551
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781840226928
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was... -
Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9781853264153
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With 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...