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Hard Times Charles Dickens 9781857150735
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.19This edition of "Hard Times" includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and... -
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 9781857150582
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.01Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857150841
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N... -
Frozen Assets by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32The `Frozen Assets' of the title belong to Edmund Biffen Christopher and they are the legacy of his Godfather which he will receive if he manages to avoid been arrested, something of a previous habit... -
Eggs, Beans And Crumpets P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591063
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.14Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny... -
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick instead of her... -
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 9781857150667
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.47"My favorite novel -it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart." Daniel Radcliffe.The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for... -
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek 9781857151510
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $18.38An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the ANCIEN REGIME of the Austro-Hungarian empire, THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK recreates the age-old figure of the simple soldier whose sheer determination... -
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 9781857152173
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.37A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted. Often hailed as a classic of magic realism, this is a many-layered and entralling... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino 9781857151381
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty... -
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 9781841593418
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92At the turn of the twentieth century. When their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity... -
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781857150636
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.07Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781857150551
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.85Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever... -
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781857152548
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a... -
Dracula by Bram Stoker 9781841593302
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.82Though Stoker did not invent vampires - and in fact based his character's life-in-death on extensive research into European folklore - his novel elevated the nocturnal monster to iconic stature,... -
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 9781857152890
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.94With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an... -
Fathers And Children by Ivan Turgenev 9781857150179
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.29"So ... you were convinced of all this and decided not to do anything serious yourselves.""And decided not to do anything serious," Bazarov repeated grimly. ..."But to confine yourselves to... -
Tragedies Volume 1: Contains Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781857150926
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Volume 1 of the Everyman Shakespeare, published in 1992, includes the four major tragedies: HAMLET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO and MACBETH. The authoritatively edited texts of the plays are supplemented with... -
Old Goriot Honore De Balzac 9781857150377
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he... -
Much Obliged, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fiancee, and Roderick Spode,... -
Cinderella by C. S. Evans
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68This most beloved of all fairy tales is told in many versions and found in many different cultures - from the Italian CENERANTOLA to the Russian CHERNUSHKA For this edition, first published in 1919,... -
Possession by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is determined... -
The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing Dr Henry Hughes 9781841597881
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern... -
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Dicken's third novel, published in 1839, is a brilliant and vivid melodrama of honest youth triumphing over vice and injustice. Bursting with energy and populated by a whole world of inimitable and... -
Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air by George Orwell 9781841593357
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.37George Orwell was a novelist unlike any other, fiercely devoted to presenting the truth as he saw it. The three novels in this collection date from the 1930s, before his political satires Animal Farm... -
Ulysses James Joyce 9781857151008
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important... -
Emma Jane Austen 9781857150360
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69Although described by Jane Austen as a character 'whom no one but myself will much like', the irrepressible Emma Woodhouse is one of her most beloved heroines. Clever, rich and beautiful, she sees no... -
Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 9781841593432
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen... -
Collected Stories Franz Kafka 9781857151459
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.77Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new... -
Complete Shorter Fiction Herman Melville 9781857152326
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a... -
Motherhood by Carmela Ciuraru 9781841597652
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82From tenth-century Japan's Izumi Shikibu, colonial America's Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel's Yehuda Amichai, Ireland's Paul Muldoon, and Russia's Anna... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9781857151978
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his... -
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781857150704
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, which when first published in 1991 was described by the TIMES as 'a miracle' and by THE INDEPENDENT as a near 'ideal translation'. The... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9781857150940
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside... -
If This Is Man And The Truce by Primo Levi 9781857152227
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.37Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE... -
Hopscotch and Blow-Up by Julio Cortazar
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of... -
The Awkward Age Henry James 9781857151527
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written when James was... -
The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32A classic musical comedy plot turned into a novel, The Prince and Betty is the story of a man who gives up everything for his girl. Fortunately, she chances to be the step-daughter of a millionaire... -
The Swoop! & The Military Invasion of America by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32"Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking themselves by what right these aliens had overrun British... -
Olinger Stories by John Updike
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." These stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then in various...