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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780141199528
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall'Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780141199672
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so... -
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann 9780141043784
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that... -
Go by John Clellon Holmes
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began ON THE ROAD, GO is the... -
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.04'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A magnificent account of a less than... -
Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb by Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutionsMemoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and... -
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism by Gavin Alexander
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.58Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and... -
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781857150636
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $30.32Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with... -
What Sport Tells Us About Life by Ed Smith 9780141031859
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Why will there never be another Bradman?How do you win 33 games in a row?Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage?Foraying deep into sport's leftfield, Ed smith asks the questions we rarely... -
The Book of Dede Korkut by Geoffrey Lewis 9780141199030
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of twelve stories set in the heroic age of the Oghuz Turks, a nomadic tribe who had journeyed westwards through Central Asia from the ninth century onwards... -
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 9781857152890
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $32.34With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an... -
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series) Charlotte Bronte 9781784870737
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn ... -
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of... -
'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.40What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman. Richard... -
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40The Penguin English Library Edition of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson'"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"'In Treasure Island, a weathered... -
Wild Olives: Life in Majorca With Robert Graves by William Graves
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family... -
Liveforever by Andrés Caicedo
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04Andres Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music.Maria del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she... -
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 9780141439976
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.02'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is... -
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9780141389400
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him... -
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 9781857150285
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.87Tom Jones is one of the earliest English novels, and was hugely popular when it was first published in 1749. It tells the story of the foundling Tom and his journey towards adulthood and marriage. As... -
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 9781857151602
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.20In his last completed novel, published in 1864-5, Dicens confirmed his reputation as a story-teller of genius while extending the sphere of his imagination to new worlds. Like all Dickens' novels,... -
Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris 9780140274844
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $32.96Jan Morris's magnificent book celebrates Wales and all things Welsh. Written as a deeply personal study, it reflects the rich bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and wonderfully... -
Comedies Volume 2 by William Shakespeare 9781857152265
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $32.63The penultimate volume in the 8-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare's later Comedies - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT,... -
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day E J Hobsbawm 9780140257885
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'A masterpiece' Julian BarnesFlaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary,... -
Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?"This edition contains two... -
Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 9780140443349
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which remained his... -
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope 9780140437621
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn's return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under... -
Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays by Albert Camus 9781857152784
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $29.56Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his... -
Old Goriot Honore De Balzac 9781857150377
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.87Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he... -
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.16An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic... -
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.83Eleven-year-old Arn is walking through the countryside in Cambodia. His whole town is walking with him. They're walking into one of the most tragic moments of history: the Killing Fields.Music will... -
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.20Dicken's third novel, published in 1839, is a brilliant and vivid melodrama of honest youth triumphing over vice and injustice. Bursting with energy and populated by a whole world of inimitable and... -
King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer 9780141391588
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.04From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country... -
Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of... -
Selected Journalism 1850-1870 by Charles Dickens
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32A testament to the energy and creativity of a writer and journalist without equal, Charles Dickens's Selected Journalism 1850-1870 is edited with an introduction and notes by David Pascoe in Penguin... -
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers... -
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and... -
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9780099540755
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83'A work whose power stands the test of time' Sunday Times ...