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Selected Poems: Annotated Edition (Great Poets Series) W.B. Yeats 9781847494412
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.35The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the... -
The New Dress and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf 9781847499103
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83As 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... -
Manon Lescaut by Antoine Francois Prevost
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her, and they elope to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts... -
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 9781847496539
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect... -
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to... -
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious... -
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy night-time thunderstorm in Argentina. As conditions get worse and the... -
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte 9781847497147
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her own family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her... -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 9781847495778
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.83When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz. Upon being told that the only way back is to follow the yellow brick road... -
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 9781847495716
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68"She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steeled his heart against her." In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished... -
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Ghostly Tales by Washington Irving
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84Ichabod Crane is a young schoolmaster from Connecticut now living in Sleepy Hollow, a settlement in New York State notorious for rumours of ghostly visitations, especially from the infamous Headless... -
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 9781847496577
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be... -
Beowulf: Dual Language and New Verse Translation: New Verse Translation, Fully Annotated (Dual-Language Edition) J.G. Nichols 9781847497949
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, beginning with the dread monster Grendel, who has... -
The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit 9781847497901
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they are about to embark on their greatest adventure yet. The Psammead... -
The Song of Roland by Anthony Mortimer
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05"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... -
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven... two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their... -
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781847496768
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17We 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... -
The Old Curiosity Shop: Annotated Edition by Charles Dickens 9781847499073
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83The beautiful Nell is a thirteen-year-old orphan who lives with her grandfather in a London bric-a-brac shop. Worried about his charge's future, the old man secretly gambles at night in order to... -
Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who... -
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847498724
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51On his return to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant surgeon, Doctor Watson is looking for a place to live. He is introduced to a certain Mr Holmes, an... -
The Turn of the Screw Henry James 9781847498298
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that... -
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 9781847496386
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Depicting the adventures of Rat, Mole, Badger and the pretentious Mr Toad, The Wind in the Willows sees these four animals getting into all sorts of trouble as they wander along the river, through... -
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte 9781847497178
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05When the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of his brother's mill, he decides to accept a position as an English... -
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 9781847495754
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures Under Ground Lewis Carroll 9781847494078
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice's encounters... -
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions, but after suffering heartbreak he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any... -
Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog and Other Fiction: Fully annotated edition: contains over 300 textual notes by Dylan Thomas 9781847499158
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Set in the author's native Swansea in South Wales, the ten autobiographical stories in this much-loved collection chart his journey from boyhood - movingly and at times comically evoked in tales such... -
Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman... -
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William... -
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9781847498045
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39"Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama,... -
The Prelude and Other Poems by William Wordsworth
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37"Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns in cities, I have owed to them, In... -
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 9781847493446
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's... -
What Katy Did: Illustrated by Susan Hellard Susan Coolidge 9781847496072
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Katy, 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... -
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781847498182
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in search of him. His uncle Ebenzer is far from welcoming, however, and... -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake 9781847498212
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry, he created works that are often... -
Black Snow Mikhail Bulgakov 9781847493538
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05After 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... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens 9781847498854
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck... -
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 9781847496249
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the... -
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 9781847495877
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a...