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The Secret Garden by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett 9781840227796
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33Mary 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: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.61Translated 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... -
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare 9781853262357 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.69Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante 9781840221664
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.61Translated 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33The 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 Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 9781840227833
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship... -
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781840227888
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim... -
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit 9781840227857
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33When 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 Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 9781853262357
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.07Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking... -
The Drug and Other Stories: Second Edition by Aleister Crowley
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.23This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the... -
Adam Bede by George Eliot 9781853261923
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $9.50With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very... -
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 9781840220841
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire. Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the... -
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 9781853260216 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.71Introduction 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... -
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 9781853260070 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.74Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan. Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula... -
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 9781840227826
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33Far 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'... -
Kidnapped & Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781853261176
RRP: $9.50Booksplease Price: $6.59Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardian, falls in with Alan... -
Peter Pan by Sir James Matthew Barrie 9781840227895
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33The 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... -
The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two by E. F. Benson
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $7.97With 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 Waves by Virginia Woolf 9781840224108
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.07Introduction 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 Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two by E. F. Benson 9781840226744 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.74With 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... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9781853260285
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With 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... -
Villette by Charlotte Bronte 9781853260728 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.74With 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,... -
The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $8.97With 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... -
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: with The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes 9781840227475
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.54John 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... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9781853264740
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.54With 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... -
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 9781853262937 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $4.76With 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... -
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer 9781840221176
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $12.26Translated 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... -
Villette Charlotte Bronte 9781853260728
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With 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,... -
The Time Machine and Other Works by H. G. Wells
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09In 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 Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories by H. G. Wells 9781840227406
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $9.50With 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 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $6.28Translated 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: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09With 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... -
The Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers by Henry James
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.07With 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... -
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 9781840226881
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $12.26Adam 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... -
Strange Tales by Rudyard Kipling 9781840225327 [USED COPY]
RRP: $7.12Booksplease Price: $6.12Some six or seven feet above the port bulwarks, framed in fog, and as utterly unsupported as the full moon, hung a Face. It was not human, and it certainly was not animal, for it did not belong to... -
Agnes Grey Anne Bronte 9781853262166
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $9.50Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 9781853260827 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.71With 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... -
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte 9781853262166 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $5.50Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a... -
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9781853260438
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.09Introduction 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... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew 9781840226195
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.61With 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...