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Sepulchres and Other Poems: Dual Language by Ugo Foscolo
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Foscolo 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22The 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.82When 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
Booksplease Price: $9.84Charles 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.62Happily 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89The 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... -
The Crack-up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Compiled 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... -
Apology for a Murder by Lorenzino De Medici
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.45Famed 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: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.00In 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33Constantly 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Written 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.62The 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.81Four 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96"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... -
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Under 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22When 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09This 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Published 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22When 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22George 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11What 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.02From 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.59Based 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.82When 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.36When 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33While 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11"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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.91When 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: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.45When 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72The 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.51English 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... -
Tales of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.91A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find... -
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11"I know every move of your game... It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes... If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you." With... -
Tales from Russian Folklore by Alexander Afanasyev
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of... -
Carmen: Accompanied by another famous novella by Mérimée, The Venus of Ille by Prosper Mérimée
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11When the Basque dragoon Don Jose meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding, he is immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested for injuring a co-worker and he helps her to flee,... -
Candide by Voltaire 9781847497284
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being... -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy 9781847493637
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small... -
The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he... -
On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.51On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and... -
Wilhelm Meister by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.00Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous...