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Flush by Virginia Woolf 9781847498106
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17"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... -
Sepulchres and Other Poems: Dual Language by Ugo Foscolo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in... -
Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon Jane Austen 9781847497154
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The epistolary novel Lady Susan is the darkly humorous tale of the amatory schemes and machinations of an ambitious and unprincipled coquette. The Watsons is the story of the refined and... -
Jettatura Theophile Gautier 9781847498359
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under his gaze, and to discover that an Italian suitor, Count Altavilla, is... -
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 9781847493767
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London. Teeming... -
The King's Bride: Annotated Edition with an introduction by Paul Turner E.T.A. Hoffmann 9781847499257
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage... -
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled: and Other Russian Comic Stories by Nikolai Gogol 9781847496645
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs... -
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy night-time thunderstorm in Argentina. As conditions get worse and the... -
Manon Lescaut by Antoine Francois Prevost
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her, and they elope to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Resurrection of the Gods by Dmitry Merezhkovsky
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance's greatest figure traces Leonardo's early development as an artist and court figure to his final years in exile, portraying his loves and... -
All The Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the... -
The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later,... -
Coming Up for Air: Annotated Edition by George Orwell
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37George Bowling, a forty-five-year-old insurance salesman with a wife and two children, is overweight, depressed and haunted by ever-present portents of imminent global conflict. Dreaming of escaping... -
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 9781847496539
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect... -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847496164
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9781847497888
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call... -
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9781847497598
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84When Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his line is at an end, declares that he will divorce his wife and marry... -
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 9781847493774
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.28When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the... -
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 9781847496249
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the... -
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9781847498045
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51"Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama,... -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 9781847495778
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz. Upon being told that the only way back is to follow the yellow brick road... -
Daisy Miller by Henry James 9781847498656
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open... -
War by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 9781847499165
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The scene opens in a smouldering orchard in Flanders, where the French soldier Ferdinand, shell-shocked, badly wounded and surrounded on all sides by mud, corpses and destruction, tries to find his... -
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Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 9780714538822 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.72English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. "It was a... -
Memoirs of a Mother in Law by George R. Sims 9781847493415
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £12.85Jane Tressider has never been afraid of speaking her mind, even if she admits that she may have occasionally given offence by doing so. But as a busy mother of nine children, she cannot let such a... -
Image on the Heart and Other Stories by Scott F. Fitzgerald
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in France. After she and her benefactor become close, she agrees to marry him... -
A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.43"In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what appears to be the Garden of Eden, surrounded by Biblical patriarchs... -
The Dream by Emile Zola
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.73"Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town's towering cathedral... -
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins 9781847498397
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls ill and dies in a decaying Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a... -
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9781847498526
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army by a river. Among the soldiers is eighteen-year-old volunteer Henry Fleming, who has... -
Supernatural Short Stories: Annotated Edition Walter Scott 9781847499301
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.20One of the main forces in early nineteenth-century literature, Sir Walter Scott was not only among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers, including literary giants... -
The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov 9781847493576
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an... -
The Testament and Other Poems: New Translation by François Villon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The most celebrated of French medieval poets, Francois Villon makes poetry out the basest material the raw urban life of Paris with its petty officials, students, clergy, tradesmen, pimps, whores and... -
Memories of London by Edmondo De Amicis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which... -
A Nest of the Gentry: New Translation by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and... -
The Thousand and One Ghosts by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that... -
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51London's criminal underworld has risen once again, and a dangerous individual with an air gun is prowling the streets. The capital is in greater need of its protector Sherlock Holmes than ever. ... -
Main Street: Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes by Sinclair Lewis
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of... -
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781847494214
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the... -
The Divine Comedy: Anniversary Edition: Newly Translated and Annotated with illustrations by Gustave Dore Dante Alighieri 9781847498762
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls...