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Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781847496355
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Growing 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... -
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart... -
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781847495730
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.32After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a lonely and neglected life, with nothing to do apart from... -
Supernatural Tales Robert Louis Stevenson 9781847495204
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.20Alongside his celebrated Gothic horror story 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', this volume contains all of Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural tales, showcasing both his mastery of the genre... -
Apology for a Murder by Lorenzino De Medici
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00Famed 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... -
Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest... -
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68Constantly 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... -
Mozart's Journey to Prague Eduard Morike 9781847495112
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately home. But when the resident family find out who they... -
Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.03As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country... -
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by... -
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle... -
The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville's masterpieces. In 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young... -
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847492128
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into... -
Emma Jane Austen 9781847494139
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma... -
Persuasion by Jane Austen 9781847495709
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes... -
The Ladies' Paradise Emile Zola 9781847493132
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society - obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification - Ladies' Delight vividly depicts the workings of a new commercial... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.67Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a... -
Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.08While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle. In this collection, first... -
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05On 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... -
Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary by Joseph Conrad
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him... -
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 9781847494009
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices... -
Literary and political Essays: Annotated Edition George Orwell 9781847495150
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46One of the most celebrated novelists in the English language, George Orwell was also a prolific essay writer and literary reviewer, penning articles on such diverse subjects as the craft of writing,... -
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39London'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. ... -
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... -
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe 9781847497031
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of landscape, is the masterpiece of Gothic fiction. Enlisted by the... -
Heidi: Putting Her Lessons to Good Use (First Unabridged Translation) Johanna Spyri 9781847499332
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02When the Sesemann family and their friend Dr Classen, who were so kind to Heidi during her stay in Frankfurt, visit her and her grandfather at their home in the Swiss Alps, young Klara Sesemann, an... -
The Poison Belt and Other Professor Challenger's Stories: Annotated Edition Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847499288
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Summoned from London, journalist Edward Malone, narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle's prehistoric-adventure novel The Lost World, finds himself reunited with his erstwhile travelling companions at the... -
X and Other Stories: Newly Translated and Annotated Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781847499295
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97From the stark depictions of rural Russia in 'Provincial Life' to the vivid portrayal of an artillery unit in 'At the End of the Earth', from stories such as 'The Cave' and 'Mamai', describing the... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9781847493811
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling... -
The Complete Collected Poems: Annotated Edition Dylan Thomas 9781847499264
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Famous for seminal poems such as 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night', 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' and 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', Dylan Thomas was the... -
Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hellmuth Weissenborn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Simplicius Simplicissimus - the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language - charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through... -
The Willow and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov 9781847499172
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Old Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened, hunchbacked willow, fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time, to a... -
A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.43In 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... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9781847494849
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68"Sense and Sensibility" is famously characterised as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human desire for romantic... -
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 9781847493699
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one... -
Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome... -
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 9781847496461
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.64When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat... -
New Grub Street George Gissing 9781847499219
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83In late-Victorian London, two writers of radically different temperaments pursue contrasting approaches to the literary life. The first, the talented and cerebral novelist Edwin Reardon, appears to... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a...