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Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 9781853261947
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.12With 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03When 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Little 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Introduction 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75Translated 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75Heidi 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03Traditional 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Translated 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05Edited, 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With 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: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.16Notes 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.65Jane 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03During 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: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With 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... -
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 9781853267291
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale... -
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 9781853262449
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of... -
D.H. Lawrence: The Savage Pilgrim by Catherine Carswell 9781840225686 [USED COPY]
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €1.49Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence's friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over "Lady Chatterley's Lover" still raging, the abuse heaped on... -
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Library Collection) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781840228816
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €26.50It was in 1887 that the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the... -
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Library Collection) Oscar Wilde 9781840228427
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €25.55Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry... -
Persuasion by Jane Austen 9781853260568
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne... -
Man-Size in Marble and Other Grim Tales by Stephen Carver 9781840229059
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Selected and introduced by Stephen Carver The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to strangle the thought of it... -
Cranford & Selected Short Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell 9781840224511
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume... -
The Nutcracker (Collector's Edition) by E.T.A. Hoffman 9781840229158
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66“The Nutcracker” is a classic fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl named Maria who receives a magical nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. That night, she is swept into a fantastical world... -
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 9781840229400
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03“Wind, Sand and Stars” is a lyrical memoir by French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, blending adventure, reflection, and philosophical insight. Drawing from his experiences as a... -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.51With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case... -
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George... -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret... -
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With an Introduction and Notes by Esther Saxey The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the... -
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be... -
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66' ... once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.'. Evil masterminds beware!... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €4.63Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of... -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He... -
Notes From Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction... -
King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €3.30In King Solomon's Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while... -
Little Women & Good Wives Louisa May Alcott 9781840227536
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75Little 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... -
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 9781853260674
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €3.99Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young... -
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 9781853261039
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever...