Filter By
Books (536)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.81In 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81During 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38True 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38When 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.59"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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38The 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81This 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... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38In 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38A 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $16.02Against 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81The 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38Sara, 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96The 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.36When 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38"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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38It 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38Roberta, 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: $14.68Booksplease Price: $12.41When 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... -
The Canterbury Tales: Fully Annotated Edition by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each... -
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.03After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro's Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout... -
The Single Hound by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.57When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, having published only a tiny selection of her verse anonymously in journals and newspapers, she left behind a chest containing almost 1,800 poems written on... -
Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38Described by Herman Melville as being "as deep as Dante", 'Young Goodman Brown' is set during the Salem witch trials and features the sort of narrative ambiguities and troubling uncertainties over... -
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9781847496300
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.01Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men... -
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781847496768
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 9781847494085
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.57Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal... -
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 9781847493699
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.94The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the... -
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 9781847498076
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.50"Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy's fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of... -
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9781847497840
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationships between all life forms, both present and extinct,... -
![The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781847495730 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9694120/10710836/9781847495730__75700.1781315092.jpg?c=1 "The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781847495730 [USED COPY]")
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781847495730 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $4.49After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a lonely and neglected life, with nothing to do apart from... -
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Dmitry 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96When 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: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.50The 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.36The 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: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.94When 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Abandoned 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34As 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38Katy, 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.01The 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81As 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38The 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...