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Humorous Tales by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations - a drunken... -
Parasha and Other Poems by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75One of the pillars of nineteenth-century Russian prose fiction alongside towering figures such as Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev started his writing career as a poet, gaining much... -
Love and Friendship: Annotated edition which includes Lesley Castle, A History of England, The Three Sisters, Catharine, A Collection of Letters and Lady Susan Jane Austen 9781847496331
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic... -
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 9781847495860
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.42After a wonderful early life as a young colt on Farmer Gray's meadows, the stallion Black Beauty is sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall and joins the gentleman's stables. While his existence is no... -
The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo 9781847498700
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.80A first-person diary of a prisoner's final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo's poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the... -
A Long Day in a Short Life by Albert Maltz 9780714550633
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75As time ticks along with indifference, the inmates of the Washington District Jail drag on their daily routine behind bars. Innocent at their birth, these frail creatures who have lost their way now... -
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 9781847496447
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge... -
The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9781847497819
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.74Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42In 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... -
Dead Souls by Donald Rayfield
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He... -
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted... -
Plays: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their... -
The Intimate Strangers and Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781847495662
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was... -
The Raven and Other Poems: Fully Annotated Edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe's complete poems and three essays on poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all... -
The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales by H. P. Lovecraft
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.34When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the... -
A Paradise Lost by John Milton
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a... -
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf 9781847498908
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42It is a variable early summer's day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote village in the very heart of England. The local community is all astir,... -
The Railway Children E. Nesbit 9781847496010
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside... -
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde 9781847496126
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.52When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their... -
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and conviction immediately make a powerful impression. As he stys... -
The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fi reworks, their parents replace it with a second-hand one. Upon unfurling it, the children fi nd an egg... -
The Duel by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.75The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels - on the run from the authorities of his native Venice - around northern Europe, poking fun at the ruling classes he... -
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.34The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an... -
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 9781847496461
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $13.34When 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... -
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 9781847499059
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Abandoned as an infant and of unknown parentage, Tom Jones is raised in the household of the irreproachable, altruistic Squire Allworthy. Growing up to be a high-spirited, lusty youth, Tom finds... -
The New Dress and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf 9781847499103
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially... -
What Katy Did: Illustrated by Susan Hellard Susan Coolidge 9781847496072
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Katy, a twelve-year-old gangly tomboy, dreams of blossoming into a sophisticated young woman, capable of grand deeds and adventures. She is however prone to mischief, and leads her six siblings into... -
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 9781847498601
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.62The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara soon realizes that young men can't resist her charms, despite her forthright manners... -
Night and Day: Annotated Edition Virginia Woolf 9781847498694
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets' Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William... -
With the Flow by Joris-Karl Huysmans 9781847498342
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the occasional embraces of a prostitute. But... -
Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.66As 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... -
A Young Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and... -
Chamber Music and Other Poems: Annotated Edition James Joyce 9781847495853
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of... -
The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.88As their father is sick, Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel must work to support their family. Despite this life of poverty, they long to take part in the annual ice-skating races on the... -
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 9781847498816
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.07Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helen's brother-in-law Willoughby Vinrace. Travelling with... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9781847494887
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts to impose his... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.42Invited 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... -
Diaboliad and Other Stories: New Translation by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42In Bulgakov's 'Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out... -
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Annotated Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the... -
Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 9781847496393
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Anne is an orphan with a penchant for daydreaming and distinctive flaming-red hair that catches the eye of everyone she meets. She is overjoyed to be sent to Green Gables, the Cuthberts' farm, which...