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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Originally 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 Devil's Dictionary: The Complete Edition: The Complete Edition - 1911 edition, enriched with over 800 definitions left out from the original publications Ambrose Bierce 9781847498175
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.73A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce's began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years... -
The Island of Dr Moreau H.G. Wells 9781847496591
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.91After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods... -
The Adolescent: New Translation Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781847494993
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel... -
The Art of Sinking in Poetry by Alexander Pope
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they... -
Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.73Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate... -
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 9781847494009
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.79As 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... -
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 9781847493521
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his... -
The Touchstone: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages) Edith Wharton 9781847497932
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.45Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn,... -
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 9781847498267
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country's ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist... -
King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard 9781847498410
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11When the adventurer Allan Quatermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry's missing brother, who was last seen trekking into the remote African interior in... -
The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist 9781847498625
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during... -
Memoirs of a Hunter Ivan Turgenev 9781847499042
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Turgenev's first major publication, Memoirs of a Hunter is a series of tales based largely on the author's own experiences while hunting on his mother's estate of Spasskoye, where he became aware of... -
X and Other Stories: Newly Translated and Annotated Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781847499295
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.28From 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... -
Macbeth: Fully annotated edition with notes and extra material for students William Shakespeare 9781847495136
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative... -
The Testament and Other Poems: New Translation by François Villon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97As 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Coming 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.82Coming 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11London'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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Young 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33Having 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Dante'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... -
Black Snow Mikhail Bulgakov 9781847493538
Booksplease Price: $10.22After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious... -
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81As he was finishing Finnegans Wake, Joyce proclaimed, "I have discovered I can do anything with language I want." Indeed, with his last book, which took him seventeen years to write, Joyce... -
The The Captain's Daughter and A History of Pugachov Alexander Pushkin 9781847492159
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works. The inexperienced and impetuous... -
Flappers and Philosophers by Scott F. Fitzgerald
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in... -
The Rats in the Walls and Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued by the constant noise of rats scurrying... -
The Mudfog Papers by Charles Dickens
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog - such as the delusions of... -
The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.09In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that this small misdemeanour will have a profound impact... -
Selected Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his... -
True Story - Lucius, or The Ass by Lucian of Samosata
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22True Story, Lucian's best-known and most entertaining work, is a parody of the tall stories of fantastic journeys narrated by famous poets and historians. With his trademark wit and humour, Lucian... -
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 9781847494221
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted... -
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 9781847497963
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.35"The friends Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave Miss Pinkerton's school together, ready to forge their paths in the tawdry and cut-throat world of the early nineteenth century. The scheming,... -
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter 9781847496409
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22The orphan girl Pollyanna moves in with her strict aunt in New England. Despite a difficult start, Pollyanna's exuberance and positivity affect everyone who meets her, and she spreads joy and love... -
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 9781847494788
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09This collection of Pushkin's stories begins with 'The Queen of Spades', perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a... -
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... -
The Song of Roland by Anthony Mortimer
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09"After years of fierce battle, the Emperor Charlemagne's army is finally on the brink of victory over the Saracens in Spain. Having proposed his stepfather Ganelon for the perilous task of serving as...