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Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf 9781847493477
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight... -
Tales of Adventures and Medical Life by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €9.08Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes some of his best short fiction outside of the Sherlock Holmes canon. As... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9781847494955
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships... -
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847496508
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.34When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given... -
Pushkin's Letters: Annotated Authoritative Edition Alexander Pushkin 9781847499349
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91It 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... -
Eugene Onegin: A New Translation by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.13When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet... -
Moral Fables by Giacomo Leopardy
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces,... -
Money by Emile Zola
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.75Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother,... -
Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman... -
The Confusions of Young Master Toerless Robert Musil 9781847493545
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World Wars. As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young... -
The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847499080
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author's release... -
The Pat Hobby Stories Scott F. Fitzgerald 9781847493859
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781847496089
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.76Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal... -
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781847496355
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €9.08Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, he is actually Lord... -
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.04This 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... -
The Mother by Maxim Gorky
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.47Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova - the mother of the title - and her son Pavel, Gorky's masterpiece describes the brutal life of ordinary Russian factory workers... -
The Life of Rossini by Stendhal
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €20.12Rossini's success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as "an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition"... -
Racine and Shakespeare by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal's decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before 'The Charterhouse of Parma', it... -
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.34Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions, but after suffering heartbreak he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any... -
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 9781847496577
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €7.34When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be... -
Virgin Soil: New Translation by Ivan Turgenev 9781847493750
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Turgenev's final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to "go to the people" by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the... -
Poems by Antonia Pozzi 9781847494702
Booksplease Price: €15.60After her tragic death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi's poems - which she had been secretly writing for years - were brought to light and became the object of great... -
The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.14"A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later... -
George Silverman's Explanation by Charles Dickens
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life... -
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 9781847495976
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.76Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries,... -
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 9781847498090
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.95Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the world and to live off her wit and beauty. Her desire to climb the rungs... -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake 9781847498212
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry, he created works that are often... -
The Crack-up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and... -
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a... -
Apology for a Murder by Lorenzino De Medici
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.95Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de' Medici remains one... -
A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.46In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with... -
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.76Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful... -
Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi 9780714544601
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain's Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky's life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip... -
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 9781847498892
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.95The story of a naughty wooden puppet who has a penchant for lying and dreams of becoming a real boy, The Adventures of Pinocchio has entered our collective imagination and fascinated... -
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim 9781847497215
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.28Four 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... -
Flush by Virginia Woolf 9781847498106
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.34"Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog's early... -
Loveless Love by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €9.08"In 'The Wave', a young man falls dangerously in love with the tenant downstairs, who is engaged to be married; in 'The Signorina', a flirtatious young woman is caught between her feelings and her... -
A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to... -
The Village by Ivan Bunin
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures Under Ground Lewis Carroll 9781847494078
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice's encounters...