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Peter Pan by Sir James Matthew Barrie 9781840227895
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red... -
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell 9781840224160
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38With 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: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Introduction 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 Complete Brontë Collection by Anne Brontë 9781840227901
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $48.45The perfect gift for any Bronte Sisters lover for only GBP19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bronte Sisters' best and much-loved works. ... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante 9781840221664
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.25Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the... -
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 9781840227864
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29The 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... -
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit 9781840227857
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a... -
The Secret Garden by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett 9781840227796
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Mary 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... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781853264665
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.25Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing... -
Villette Charlotte Bronte 9781853260728
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels,... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9781853264740
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.42With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose. More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live... -
A Christmas Carol (Heritage Collection) Charles Dickens 9781840228649
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $27.07A Christmas Carol has become a phenomenal touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, stages and filmed, this richly influential... -
The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $7.92With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene.At the... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9781853260285
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible... -
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: with The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes 9781840227475
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.25John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was... -
The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9781840224108
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her... -
The Time Machine and Other Works by H. G. Wells
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $7.12In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking... -
The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two by E. F. Benson
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories by H. G. Wells 9781840227406
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University 'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this... -
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer 9781840221176
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.82Translated by George Chapman, with Introductions by Jan Parker. Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles... -
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 9781853262937
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $7.12With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock... -
Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James 9781840220704
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.90With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His... -
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 9781853261220
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr... -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9781840227932
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of... -
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9781853260438
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.38Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent. Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9781853260209
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.90Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the... -
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 9781840226881
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.88Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book... -
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 9781853260124
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation... -
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 9781853260629
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.51War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with... -
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy 9781853262692
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the... -
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781853261367
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $7.96Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became 'show pupil' - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth... -
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 9781853260162
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'... -
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy 9781840224382
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.90With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthy's enduringly popular masterpiece. Initially, the plot centres on Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9781853260162 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $4.16Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'... -
The Communist Manifesto: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Karl Marx
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.25With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew 9781840226195
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.25With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the... -
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 9781853260179
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop'... -
Bleak House Charles Dickens 9781853260827
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his... -
The Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers by Henry James 9781853260698 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $3.68With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it... -
The Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers by Henry James
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.88With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it...