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North and South Elizabeth Gaskell 9781853260933
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull. Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the... -
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 9781853261770
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an... -
The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when... -
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.41M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement,... -
Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls by James Malcolm Rymer
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Fully revised Second Edition. With a new Introduction and Bibliography by Dick Collins. The exploits of Sweeney Todd, 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in plays,... -
Richard II by William Shakespeare 9781840227208
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly... -
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9781840221336
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.01A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781853264825
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian... -
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 9781840220735
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.41Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. '... the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from... -
Republic Plato 9781853264832
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 9781853260063
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners... -
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781853260292
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the... -
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 9781853261022
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Generations of children have... -
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 9781853261824
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.60With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and... -
The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth 9781853264016
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.62With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 9781853264993
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.30Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length... -
Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen 9781853261008
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The... -
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit 9781853261244
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes... it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur... and it had hands and feet like a... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9781853264856
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.01The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a... -
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 9781853260391
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his... -
The Happy Prince & Other Stories Oscar Wilde 9781853261237
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps... -
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 9781853262029
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and... -
Les Miserables Volume One Victor Hugo 9781853260858
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862). One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781853260957
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Edited, 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... -
The Best Short Stories Guy de Maupassant 9781853261893
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9781853262517
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should... -
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 9781853260247
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this... -
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9781853264191
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll.Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her... -
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 9781853264689
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.99With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this,... -
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 9781853264887
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression,... -
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9781853260476
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win... -
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 9781853260919
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.38With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the... -
Lady Susan and Other Works by Jane Austen 9781840226966
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.99With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she... -
Pride and Prejudice (Heritage Collection) Jane Austen 9781840228496
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of... -
The Secret Garden (Heritage Collection) Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781840228984
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes... -
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The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781840224009 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £1.25With 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... -
Animal Farm (Collector's Edition) George Orwell 9781840228779
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or... -
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9781840227925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.32Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable... -
White Nights; Poor Folk; The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781840228793
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32'White Nights' is one of Dostoevsky’s earlier short stories but one of his most enduringly popular. It tells the story of four nights in the life of the lonely narrator, who meets and falls in love... -
The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781840227512
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The perfect gift for any Sherlock Holmes fan for only £29.99. Each boxset contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the notorious detective’s best cases and adventures...