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The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad 9780812218855
Booksplease Price: $53.11Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a... -
Lost Face: Lost Face, Trust, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, The Wit of Porportuk, To Build a Fire by Jack London 9780812219357
Booksplease Price: $44.39At his peak, about the time this collection was first published in 1910, Jack London was the highest-paid and perhaps the most popular living American writer. Lost Face consists of seven short works,... -
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780812218558
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $41.87Though most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. Over the course of his career,... -
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel by W. E. B. Du Bois 9780812218923
Booksplease Price: $61.32Set in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early part of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through the stark reality of... -
Sanctuary by Edith Wharton 9780812217926
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.63Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate... -
Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser 9780812219555
Booksplease Price: $70.69Regarded as one of Dreiser's best novels, Jennie Gerhardt is here recaptured as it was originally written, restoring it to its complete, unexpurgated form.About the AuthorJames L. W. West III is... -
"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy 9780812218183
Booksplease Price: $52.77"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories, originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The compelling stories in... -
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd: A Drama in Three Acts by D. H. Lawrence 9780812218176
Booksplease Price: $34.48The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of... -
Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case: The Benjamin Franklin Mysteries: Benjamin Franklin Mysteries by Robert Lee Hall 9780812217896
Booksplease Price: $45.00More than ten years ago, Robert Lee Hall made a startling discovery. Within a secret compartment of an old armoire once owned by his great aunt, he found a yellowing manuscript describing a series of... -
Terminations: The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund, The Middle Years, The Altar of the Dead by Henry James 9780812218930
Booksplease Price: $44.29Terminations is Henry James's most thematically unified collection of stories. Gathered in 1895, and following his fascination with the supernatural in the 1880s, this elegant collection explores the... -
Folktales from Iraq by C. G. Campbell 9780812219135
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Who would not shudder when entering the skeleton-lined cave of the queen of the dead? How would a young man and his sister escape from the prison of a treacherous sultan? How would a poor farmer gain... -
Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder: The Benjamin Franklin Mysteries: Benjamin Franklin Mysteries by Robert Lee Hall 9780812217902
Booksplease Price: $53.11In the second case recorded by Benjamin Franklin's young charge and assistant Nick Handy, the great Doctor Franklin is confronted with a shocking event. While attending a mummers' play at the home of... -
Bashan and I by Thomas Mann
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Bashan and I is the moving story of Thomas Mann's relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. From their first encounter at a local farm, Mann reveals how he slowly grows to love this... -
The Sheik by E. M. Hull
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Diana Mayo is young, beautiful, wealthy-and independent. Bored by the eligible bachelors and endless parties of the English aristocracy, she arranges for a horseback trek through the Algerian desert... -
German Students' War Letters by Philipp Witkop
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly... -
War Letters of Fallen Englishmen by Laurence Housman
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76More than eight million young men perished during the First World War-a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict...