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War by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 9781847499165
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.27The scene opens in a smouldering orchard in Flanders, where the French soldier Ferdinand, shell-shocked, badly wounded and surrounded on all sides by mud, corpses and destruction, tries to find his... -
Life in the Country by Giovanni Verga
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Published 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... -
The Call of the Wild and Other Stories by Jack London
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51When the pampered Buck is kidnapped from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy days of... -
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 9781847498861
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37After 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... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9781847498274
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68Having 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... -
The Vindications by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781847498120
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Written as a passionate riposte to Talleyrand's report to the French National Assembly, in which he declared that women needed only a domestic education, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked... -
A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady by Ivan Goncharov 9781847499110
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37It 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 Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 9781847498083
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is the story of Squire Matthew Bramble and... -
Life of Dante Giovanni Boccaccio 9781847496638
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37"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... -
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 9781847498281
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus Harding, the kindly warden who devotes his life to the care of the... -
Ruslan and Lyudmila: Dual Language by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.13Alexander 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Nellie 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... -
Der Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88Der 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... -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 9781847497550
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05First 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... -
Down and Out in Paris and London: Annotated Edition George Orwell 9781847499271
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London’s Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory “tramping” expeditions to the city’s... -
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka 9781847497048
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Conflict 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... -
Guignol's Band by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 9781847491992
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Celine'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... -
His Last Bow: Annotated Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the sudden descent into madness of two brothers – these are... -
The Years by Virginia Woolf 9781847498663
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37It 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... -
Silas Marner by George Eliot 9781847498304
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives alone in the village of Raveloe, hoarding the precious wealth he earns... -
The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 9781847499196
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17In January 1936, the thirty-two-year-old George Orwell left his home in London and travelled to the industrial north of England with the intention of experiencing first-hand the conditions in which... -
A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote: New Translation by Thomas Mann 9781847499363
Booksplease Price: £7.72Written immediately after his return from his first trip to America in June 1934, A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote follows the author’s observations about life aboard a Dutch vessel bound for New... -
Wilhelm Meister by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Seduced 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The 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... -
Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of... -
Mlle de Scuderi by E. T. A. Hoffman
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00As 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 Life of Rossini by Stendhal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.91Rossini'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"... -
Racine and Shakespeare by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30This 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... -
The Valley of Fear: Annotated Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the great detective hopes to avoid a murderous crime and bring the would-be assassin... -
The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The 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 Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit 9781847498427
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius ("H.O.") Bastable are desperate to help their widowed father to restore the family's fortunes after his business fails. Their... -
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9781847498526
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74On 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... -
Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter 9781847496621
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Documenting 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... -
Poems by Antonia Pozzi 9781847494702
Booksplease Price: £13.11After 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... -
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Proust'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... -
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Published 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... -
George Silverman's Explanation by Charles Dickens
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37After 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... -
Chamber Music and Other Poems: Annotated Edition James Joyce 9781847495853
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Universally 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... -
New Arabian Nights: Annotated Edition Robert Louis Stevenson 9781847494092
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Stevenson 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...