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The Life of Rossini by Stendhal
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.66Rossini's success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as "an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition"... -
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 9781847498861
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican... -
Mlle de Scuderi by E. T. A. Hoffman
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.70As Paris is shaken by a spate of murderous robberies, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the cowardly lovers who now fear to go out at night to see their mistresses... -
The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio - Stendhal's first published work - owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri Beyle... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9781847498274
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.61Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of people gather round and... -
A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady by Ivan Goncharov 9781847499110
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54It is a winter evening, and Yegor Aduyev, the scion of a wealthy family from the landed gentry, slips into the house of Baron Neyleyn with the intention of asking his beautiful daughter, the... -
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9781847498526
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.70On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army by a river. Among the soldiers is eighteen-year-old volunteer Henry Fleming, who has... -
Life of Dante Giovanni Boccaccio 9781847496638
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.63"Life of Dante" brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist... -
Poems by Antonia Pozzi 9781847494702
Booksplease Price: $17.57After her tragic death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi's poems - which she had been secretly writing for years - were brought to light and became the object of great... -
Der Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58Der fliegende Hollander is the first of Wagner's operas that the author considered to be representative of his mature style. The Dutchman embodies one of the major themes that recur throughout... -
The Years by Virginia Woolf 9781847498663
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old... -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 9781847497550
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the... -
Guignol's Band by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 9781847491992
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Celine's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been... -
Ruslan and Lyudmila: Dual Language by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying... -
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.69Alexander Pope was, at one time, the world's most celebrated poet. His trenchant satirical works - in which the foibles of all the critics, hacks and bad poets of his day are exploded - and his... -
The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the more complicated by the frequent rampages of a local fox through their... -
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka 9781847497048
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most... -
Life in the Country by Giovanni Verga
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22Published in 1880, one year before Verga's influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift towards the verismo school of Italian realism. The collection's... -
Wilhelm Meister by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.51Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous... -
Selected Journalism by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the 'London Magazine', 'New Monthly Magazine' and other English Marketing Reviews of the 1820s are here brought together in a... -
Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter 9781847496621
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Documenting the colourful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less than faithful lover Giton, the "Satyricon" plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly... -
Racine and Shakespeare by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal's decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before 'The Charterhouse of Parma', it... -
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle 'In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days' takes the reader on a journey through the high-society... -
George Silverman's Explanation by Charles Dickens
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life... -
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the... -
Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad Johanna Spyri 9781847496652
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother's sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, however, her aunt is forced to entrust her young charge into... -
Chamber Music and Other Poems: Annotated Edition James Joyce 9781847495853
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Universally 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 Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later,... -
New Arabian Nights: Annotated Edition Robert Louis Stevenson 9781847494092
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Stevenson published this collection of his early fiction in 1882, after the pieces had appeared in various magazines. The first half features two popular detective-story cycles, The Suicide Club and... -
Dark Avenues by Ivan Bunin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political... -
A Journey Around My Room by 9781847493088
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of... -
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he know that he... -
The Mudfog Papers by Charles Dickens
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog - such as the delusions of... -
The Tragedy of the Korosko by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847494351
Booksplease Price: $11.31As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern border, they are kidnapped by a marauding band of dervishes who demand... -
Micromegas by Voltaire
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a... -
Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Young Couples by Charles Dickens
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous 'Sketches of Young Ladies' in 1837, their resounding success prompted the twenty-six-year old Dickens to write,... -
Death on Credit by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36When Celine's first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its... -
Hashish, Wine, Opium by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31"Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier's and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of... -
A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.28"In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what appears to be the Garden of Eden, surrounded by Biblical patriarchs... -
Virgin Soil: New Translation by Ivan Turgenev 9781847493750
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Turgenev's final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to "go to the people" by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the...