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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It... -
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 9781853261763
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and... -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear (Collector's Edition) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a... -
The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories by Wilkie Collins
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05Editedand with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. `Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?' This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins,... -
The Collected Short Stories of Saki Hector Hugh Munro 9781853260711
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the... -
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.49The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her... -
The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit 9781853261299
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin... -
Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 9781853261787
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.14Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These... -
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth... -
The Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume Four by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05`The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a... -
The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from... -
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781840227543
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten... -
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 9781853262579
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of St Andrews. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth... -
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 9781853260100
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of... -
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 9781840227970
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine... -
Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas 9781840221633
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers,/em>, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of... -
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 9781840227604
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05The 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 Awakening and Selected Stories Kate Chopin 9781840225846
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk... -
Key Philosophical Writings Rene Descartes 9781853264702
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €4.77Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the... -
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 9781853260360
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9781853260780
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause... -
Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 9781853261602
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03Translated by Mary Alice Murray. The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children's tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose... -
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 9781853262050
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.03With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about... -
Selected Poems of Lord Byron: Including Don Juan and Other Poems by Lord Byron 9781853264061
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Dr Paul Wright, Trinity College, Carmarthen. 'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his... -
The Iliad Homer 9781853262425
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €2.98With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of... -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9781853260001
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9781853260018
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan, GCMG GCVO CH PC, Baron Tweedsmuir (Govenor General of Canada) 9781853260803
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war... -
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne 9781840226249
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston.Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel... -
The Railway Children E. Nesbit 9781853261077
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75When 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 Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 9781853264023
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.40With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9781853260308
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.03Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and... -
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 9781853260322
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has... -
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 9781853264337
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.12With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of... -
The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 9781853264849
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.77Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication... -
The Inferno by Dante 9781853267871
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €4.77Translated 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 Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 9781853260681
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.75With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwirth (1899). Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9781853262326
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary... -
Peter Pan (Heritage Collection) J. M. Barrie 9781840228397
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.93The 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 wolves,...