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Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 9781853261039
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $9.50'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever... -
Lorna Doone R.D. Blackmore 9781853260766
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $7.97With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West... -
Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas 9781840221633
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $7.97With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers,/em>, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of... -
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton 9781840221640
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a... -
From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon Jules Verne 9781840226706
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.28Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the... -
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 9781840227604
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de... -
Key Philosophical Writings Rene Descartes 9781853264702
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $9.54Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the... -
Shirley Charlotte Bronte 9781853260643
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9781853260049
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9781840228007
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $14.40Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a... -
Tales of Mystery & the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell 9781840220957
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not... -
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas 9781840224351
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of... -
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne 9781840226249
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.07With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston.Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel... -
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain 9781840226362
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $9.50'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His... -
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 9781853260322
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has... -
The Selected Poems of William Blake William Blake 9781853264528
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.07Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most... -
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 9781840227635
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim... -
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 9781853260681
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $9.50With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwirth (1899). Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and... -
The Complete Richard Hannay Stories by John Buchan 9781840226553 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.71Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent... -
Middlemarch by George Eliot 9781853262371
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9781853262326
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781853264610
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.54Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more... -
Irish Ghost Stories (Mystery & Supernatural) Stephen Carver 9781840229103
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.23He told more about it to the priest than to others. He certainly had a secret to tell. He might as well have divulged it frankly, for the neighbours all knew well enough that it was the face of dead... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781840224313 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.45Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of... -
Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781840226638 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $6.31With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe... -
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9781853260674 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.69Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young... -
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 9781853260988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.71With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of... -
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9781853260995 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.45With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of... -
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781853261039 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.57'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9781853261916 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.50With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds... -
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte 9781853262081 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.69With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like... -
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 9781853267260 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.69With an Introduction and Notes by Esther Saxey The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the... -
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey 9781853260964 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.95Booksplease Price: $5.85With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly... -
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde 9781853263972 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $6.88Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry... -
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats 9781853264542
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel... -
The Collected Short Stories of Saki by Hector Hugh Munro 9781853260711 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.74'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the... -
Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park 9781840226010 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.50Booksplease Price: $6.35With an Introduction and Notes by Bernard Waites, The Open University. In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river... -
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell 9781840224160
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $8.09With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural... -
Tom Jones Henry Fielding 9781853260216
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $9.50Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly... -
The Secret Garden by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett 9781840227796
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a...