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The Homeric Hymns by Homer
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his... -
Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his... -
Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?'Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,... -
Beautiful Antonio by Vitaliano Brancati
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him... -
The Ambassadors by Henry James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in... -
Magic Ponies: A New Friend by Sue Bentley
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77A little pony sparkling with magic. But his big wish is for a special friend!And so Eleanor's lonely school holiday suddenly looks like it might gallop by when playful New Forest pony Comet appears... -
The Invisible Hand by Adam Smith
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9780141040363
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.42Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780141396262
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43'Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time' Ben Jonson A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen William Shakespeare 9780241200568
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43Considered by Thomas de Quincey to be 'perhaps the most superb work in the language', The Two Noble Kinsmen is set in Athens and was co-written by Shakespeare with John Fletcher. This Penguin... -
On Government by Cicero 9780140445954
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62These pioneering writings on the mechanics, tactics, and strategies of government were devised by the Roman Republic's most enlightened thinker.About the AuthorAn accomplished poet, philosopher,... -
Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Antonio's Revenge, The Tragedy of Hoffman, The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780141194097
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780141185576
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he... -
The Master Of Ballantrae And Weir Of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781857151060
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Two of Stevenson's historical novels set against the Scottish landscape and featuring psychological studies of individuals. The unfinished "Weir of Hermiston", on which the author was working at the... -
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.49Rejected by fifteenth-century Parisian society, the hideously deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo believes he is safe under the watchful eye of his master, the Archdeacon Claude Frollo. But after... -
Collected Shorter Fiction Volume 1 Leo Tolstoy 9781857157574
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9780141396460
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe ShelleyShakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy begins when an ageing king, seeking a successor, rejects the young... -
Three Revenge Tragedies by Cyril Tourneur 9780141441245
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile... -
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.91Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and... -
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.03Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him 'unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living'. Clark Ashton Smith - autodidact, prolific... -
When I Was Mortal by Javier Marias
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In the dark narratives that make up When I Was Mortal by Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment... -
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95The first farm that Beatrix Potter owned, Hill Top, was an old house with thick walls and many hiding places for rats and mice. In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers this farmhouse is Tom Kitten's home and... -
Marco Polo Travels by Everyman
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He isone of the few early adventurers whose name... -
Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva by George Bernard Shaw 9780140450309
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62While some of Shaw's earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet,... -
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Just Nuffin by Colin Dann 9780099669005 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.32The summer holidays loomed ahead, with nothing to look forward to except one dreary week in a caravan with only mum and dad for company. Roger was sure he'd be bored.But then Dad finds Nuffin; an... -
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 9781857159042
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Lewis Carroll's Alice has been enchanting children for over 150 years. Head strong Alice, the impatient White Rabbit, the fearsome Queen of Hearts and the hilarious Mad Hatter are among the best... -
Your Voice and How to Use it by Cicely Berry
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Anxiety about how we speak prevents many of us from expressing ourselves well. In her classic handbook, Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and world-famous voice teacher,... -
The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules... -
Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Before she had arrived at Green Gables, Anne Shirley had a difficult early life. Orphaned as a baby, she was sent from one foster-home to the next, caring for other people's children even though she... -
Trollope by Victoria Glendinning 9780712697903
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.25Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues... -
Roald Dahl Collected Stories by Roald Dahl
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of... -
Life Is A Dream by Gyula Krudy
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Life is a Dream (1931) is Gyula Krudy's magical collection of ten short stories. Creating a world where editors shoot themselves after a hard day's brunching, men attend duels incognito and lovers... -
The Doctor's Dilemma by Dan H. Laurence 9780140450279
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Shaw's humorous satire of the medical profession.About the AuthorBERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform... -
Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies: Arden of Faversham; a Yorkshire Tragedy; a Woman Killed with Kindness by Keith Sturgess
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and... -
Shakespearean Tragedy by A. Bradley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of... -
Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire TomalinCharles Dickens's first published book, Sketches by Boz is a funny and touching collection... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in...