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Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 9781853262050
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $5.36With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about... -
Selected Poems of Lord Byron: Including Don Juan and Other Poems by Lord Byron 9781853264061
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Dr Paul Wright, Trinity College, Carmarthen. 'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his... -
The Iliad Homer 9781853262425
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of... -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9781853260001
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9781853260018
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan, GCMG GCVO CH PC, Baron Tweedsmuir (Govenor General of Canada) 9781853260803
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $7.12With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war... -
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne 9781840226249
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston.Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel... -
The Railway Children E. Nesbit 9781853261077
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $7.90When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a... -
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 9781853264023
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.05With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9781853260308
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and... -
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 9781853260322
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has... -
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 9781853264337
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of... -
The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 9781853264849
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.50Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication... -
The Inferno by Dante 9781853267871
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $8.42Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the... -
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9781840227987
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight... -
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 9781853260681
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwirth (1899). Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9781853262326
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary... -
Peter Pan (Heritage Collection) J. M. Barrie 9781840228397
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolves,... -
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 9781840220735 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $4.87Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. '... the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from... -
Best of Kafka (Collector's Edition) Franz Kafka 9781840228434
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.86Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from... -
The Casebook of Sexton Blake by David Stuart Davies 9781840221701 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $5.80Welcome to the breathtaking adventures of Sexton Blake! For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781853264863
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.50The "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts... -
Little Women 9781840221947
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.00Little 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 of the four March sisters living in a small New England... -
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 9781840228533
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.93Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. '... the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jaques Rousseau 9781853267819
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.48With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the... -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Having 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38With 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38The 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $7.12With 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23' ... 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: $12.58Booksplease Price: $8.36Translated 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With 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: $8.38Booksplease Price: $5.82In 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Little 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07Introduction 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38'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... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9781853261916
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds...