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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case... -
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George... -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret... -
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With an Introduction and Notes by Esther Saxey The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the... -
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be... -
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28' ... once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.'. Evil masterminds beware!... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of... -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.35With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He... -
Notes From Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction... -
King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £2.77In King Solomon's Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while... -
Little Women & Good Wives Louisa May Alcott 9781840227536
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New... -
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 9781853260674
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young... -
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 9781853261039
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9781853261916
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds... -
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781853261756
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from... -
The Tempest William Shakespeare 9781853262036
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23Edited, 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... -
Lorna Doone R.D. Blackmore 9781853260766
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West... -
The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 9781840222654
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in... -
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 9781840224085
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out 'to draw life as it really was' in the... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781840224313
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.11Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of... -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 9781853260056
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its... -
Shirley Charlotte Bronte 9781853260643
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male... -
English Fairy Tales Flora Annie Steel 9781853261336
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the... -
Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb 9781853261404
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.35Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic... -
The Lost World and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781853262456
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules... -
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 9781853260520
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9781840228007
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.05Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a... -
Tales of Mystery & the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell 9781840220957
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not... -
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 by William Shakespeare 9781840227215
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard... -
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 9781840226614
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great... -
Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9781840221152
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.88Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and... -
Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov 9781853262883
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs... -
Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling 9781853264054
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.53Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 9781840221893
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death,... -
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781853260582
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective... -
The Complete Illustrated Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm 9781853268984
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.29Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles,... -
Middlemarch by George Eliot 9781853262371
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.23Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This... -
Wuthering Heights (Heritage Collection) Emily Brontë 9781840228441
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.39Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death,... -
Great Gatsby (Heritage Collection) F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781840228885
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.39Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration...