From Austen to Zola, from medieval to the modern day - all genres are catered for between the covers of these coveted classics.
Classics Books
Dedalus Ltd Quest for the Absolute
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£8.49
Dedalus Ltd Autumn and Winter Sonatas
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£7.99
Dedalus Ltd Spirite
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£7.99
21 Publishing Ltd Against Nature: with illustrations by William
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£22.50
Oneiros Books Seven Footprints To Satan
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£9.45
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dreams, Visions and Realities
£33.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dreams
£25.99
Persephone Books Ltd The Runaway
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£16.00
Persephone Books Ltd The Young Pretenders
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£16.00
Dedalus Ltd Celestina: a Tragicomic Tale of Love
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd Seraphita (and Louis Lambert & the Exiles)
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories
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£7.99
Honno Ltd A Burglary: Or Unconscious Influence
Book SynopsisVictorian comedy of manners by Amy Dillwyn, Honno's most popular classic author.
£10.44
Honno Ltd A Welsh Witch: A Romance of Rough Places
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£10.44
Association for Scottish Literary Studies As It Was Told To Me: Three Short Stories by Sir
Book SynopsisSir Walter Scott (17711832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists, with his best-known works including Waverley (1814), Ivanhoe (1819), and Redgauntlet (1824). His experiments in short fiction, however, began before he published his first novel and throughout his career he returned to the short story form, writing tales which often contained elements of Scottish supernaturalism or the macabre.As It Was Told to Me, introduced by Daniel Cook, collects three of Scott's short stories in one volume. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror', mixes a tale of reckless romance with supernatural theatrics; The Two Drovers' offers a slow-burn exposé of national conflict; and Wandering Willie's Tale' weaves a yarn around the grisly death of a despotic laird and a trip to hell.
£9.33
Sparkling Books Ltd The True Friend
Book SynopsisTrue to Goldoni's mixture of comic wit and farce, the plot is a breathtakingly fast succession of twists and turns which only unravel in the very final lines with a surprise ending. Two friends are in love with the same young woman. Neither wants to place their friendship in jeopardy. How can love triumph without breaking off their friendship? Goldoni explores the conflicts brought about when Florindo has to choose between Lelio, his best friend, and Rosaura, his best friend's fiancee. Added to this conundrum are the issues of whether Ottavio, the old miser, will provide a dowry and the mature Beatrice's unashamed incessant pursuit of Florindo. The play is set in Bologna in Lelio's house. Florindo is a guest along with his faithful manservant. From the opening of the play, Florindo seeks to return home to Venice in order not to damage his friend's relationship. However, his departure is obstructed time and again by his hosts, leading to one complication after another. From the beginning, the plot is intense and fast-moving with inversions fed into the action in quick succession. This creates suspense which continues throughout the play as potential marriage partners are switched back and forth until the very ending when the audience finally discovers what the main characters' destiny will be. Will love or friendship prevail? The Venetian element is brought into this play through Florindo and his manservant, both Venetians. Apart from these two characters, all the others are portrayed as self-seeking, selfish and sly - whether servants or masters. The tension is kept at a constantly high level by the struggles between the characters. These struggles are not just brought about through love and friendship but are also generational and social. Furthermore, there is the added complication in the contrast of the characters' ideas of reality as they deceive one another. This creates dramatic irony and humour as the audience know more than any of the characters on stage.Trade Review"a great gift for students of Italian/English, for students of Goldoni and Italian theatre, or for theatre-lovers. Or for a true friend." - Words to good effect
£12.57
Dedalus Ltd Ida Brandt
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£9.99
Vagabond Voices I Loved a German
Book SynopsisThe newly independent Estonia may be moving forward from its dark past, but not quickly enough for young lovers Oskar, an Estonian university student, and Erika, a Baltic German descended from a now defunct nobility. The old prejudices remain, and they are strong between the Baltic Germans and the Estonians who once worked on their estates. After meeting Erika's grandfather to request her hand in marriage, Oskar questions the source of his love: is he merely a slave pining after his master? Does he really love Erika as a person, or is he subconsciously drawn to her ancestry and the dynamics of the old order? Published in 1935, I Loved a German is one of the final and best-known works of celebrated Estonian author A.H. Tammsaare. It has been praised for its psychological realism, its diary format and its rare Baltic German perspective, and has been adapted for both stage and screen.
£12.95
Dedalus Ltd As Trains Pass By (Katinka)
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£9.99
Two Rivers Press The Happy Prince: A hand-lettered edition
Book SynopsisSally Castle’s beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince sets the story among Reading’s parks, squares, rooflines and churches – the town that’s shaped her and her artwork and where Oscar spent an unhappy period in gaol. This enchanting combination of fairy story with concrete urban reality, a tale of sacrificial love written with a flourish and swirl, turns a simple book into a gem as precious as the large red ruby that glowed on the Prince’s sword-hilt. With an introduction by Michael Seeney, author and collector of Wilde’s work.
£9.49
Honno Ltd The Soldier And The Gentlewoman
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£10.44
Honno Ltd My Mother's House
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£12.34
Honno Ltd Crumbling Pageant
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£11.39
Honno Ltd Gladys Of Harlech
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£13.49
Honno Ltd Creed
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£11.39
Five Leaves Publications Two Short Stories
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£7.14
Dedalus Ltd I Malavoglia (the House by the Medlar Tree)
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£11.89
Dedalus Ltd The Life of Courage: The Notorious Thief, Whore
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£8.99
Dedalus Ltd The Illustrious House of Ramires
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£12.34
Dedalus Ltd S Sappho
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd The Continuation of Simplicissimus
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£7.99
Persephone Books Ltd A Lady and Her Husband
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£16.00
Persephone Books Ltd Effi Briest
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£16.00
Persephone Books Ltd The New Magdalen
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£16.00
Galley Beggar Press Lost Journey
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£5.91
The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Abridged and Retold,
Book SynopsisThis reader contains an abridged text that is true to Stevenson's novel. It comes with a free CD of the novel, an introduction, detail about the author, notes on the themes, list of characters, and a glossary. The story concerns Dr. Henry Jekyll who feels he is struggling with the good and evil within himself. This leads to a struggle between his dual personalities of Jekyll and Edward Hyde. This classic novel has been made available for students. Whether you are a student, or an Englishlanguage learner, or just looking for somethinggreat to read in English, the Word PowerEnglish Readers are a new series with retoldtext that captures the best and key elementsof the novels they are based on, characternotes, author biography and details about thetime each novel was written. There is alsoa glossary of the less familiar words in eachbook. The English used in the books is veryclear and the elegance of the language willinspire calm in the reader. This series willhelp both students of the novels, as well asstudents of English, who are looking to gainfluency in English.Each book comes with an audio recording ona CD placed into the back of the book. Therecording is read by an actor who speaksclearly and slowly for those less familiar withthe English language. The book and audiorecording can be used together to helpstudents learn the correct pronunciation asthey read and to improve their sight wordrecognition. Audio-assisted reading also helpsto build fluency skills by allowing students tohear the tone and pace of a skilful reader.The level of the Readers is B1/B2.Table of ContentsIntroduction; To the Reader; Summary of plot and explanation; The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson; The UK at the time the novel was written; the novel; the main characters in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; List of characters; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Glossary
£8.56
The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd Wuthering Heights: Abridged and Retold, with
Book SynopsisThe story of the ill-fated love of Catherine Earnshaw for the dark and brooding Heathcliff is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors in the north of England. This edition is abridged by John Kennett, and contains notes, a glossary and a free audiobook. This book is considered by many to be the most passionate and original novel in English literature.Whether you are a student, or an English language learner, or just looking for something great to read in English, the Word Power English Readers are a series of novels with retold text that captures the best and key elements of the novels they are based on. They come with a free audio CD, character notes, a biography of the author, details about the time book was written, and a glossary of the less familiar words in each book. The level of the Readers is B2 and they are suitable for age 10+ because of the content of the novels. The audiobook is read by a British actor clearly and slowly to help those who speak English as a second language.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Plot breakdown; notes on the time the novel was written; summary of the storyline; Characters and character list; the novel; Glossary;
£8.56
Cockatrice Books My Neighbours
£11.15
Aurora Metro Publications The Town With Acacia Trees
Book SynopsisBored by religious instruction and painting lessons, a group of friends at a convent school spend their days dreaming of romance, fashion and the latest gramophone records. One by one, they give up their visions of adventure and submit to provincial life, marrying for money and status, like their mothers before them. Plain, jaundiced Lucretia, becomes the envy of her friends when Paul, a glamorous dandy proposes, but she hides a shocking secret that will destroy their marriage and expose them to scandal. Only Adriana Dunea, the most beautiful and talented girl in the school seems destined for happiness with her childhood sweetheart, Gelu. But everything changes when, on a trip to Bucharest, she meets Cello Viorin, a famous composer...Trade Review"Sebastian gives a remarkably sensitive, candid portrayal of the coming of age of a girl seen through the eyes of a suitor. The author's sensitivity to the emotions of his heroine Adriana is captured vividly in this translation in such passages as "every kiss was a wound, in which their lips, their breath, their teeth, the tips of their tongues drowned, warm and wet, and parted slowly, with a final hesitation, leaving on each mouth a blurred, faded smile." - Dennis Deletant, Ion Ratiu Visiting Professor of Romanian Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC "Reigh handily preserves Sebastian's supple, languid syntax, shaping each sentence to accentuate his exquisite lyricism, as when the couple remains unable to yield entirely to their desire "to be held in such a way that it obliterated everything apart from the ecstasy of the flesh. An endearingly wistful story of young love." - Kirkus Reviews Blue Starred review "In The Town with Acacia Trees, Mihail Sebastian writes with the sensibility of a master jeweller. He crafts with precision and delicacy his characters' intricate souls. Sebastian's profound humanism, his utopian universalism, is as refreshing and urgent in today's climate of rising nationalisms as it was in the interwar period. Gabi Reigh's riveting translation matches Sebastian's writing like a glove." -Alex Boican, PhD in Romanian LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction Novel Afterword
£9.99
Istros Books The Trap
Book SynopsisBruckstein's two novellas, published for the first time in English, offer a fascinating depiction of rural life in the Carpathians around the time of the Second World War, tracing the chilling descent into disorder and fear of two cosmopolitan communities that had hitherto appeared to be havens of religious and racial acceptance, but which were in fact constructed on foundations of prejudice and discrimination. Bruckstein presents the effects of the Holocaust not only on the Jewish community, but also the wider Christian society. His novellas tell cautionary tales of how gradual changes that individually seem inconsequential can lead to catastrophic alterations in the very fabric of society which, by the time they are acknowledged, are irreversible. These stories serve as a warning that passivity and political apathy can sometimes be just as harmful as actions.
£9.49
Dedalus Ltd The White Dominican
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd A Woman's Affair
£11.89
Dedalus Ltd Chasing the Dream
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd This was the Man: Lui
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£11.39
Honno Welsh Women's Press Cambrian Pictures
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£11.39
Honno Ltd Cambrian Tales
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£10.44
Vagabond Voices When the Storm Fell Silent
Book SynopsisEstonians believe their greatest writer to be the prolific novelist and translator A.H. Tammsaare whose most famous work is his famous pentalogy, Truth and Justice, which traces Estonia's dramatic history from the 1860s to the 1930s. Vagabond Voices is publishing the third volume of the pentalogy, After the Storm Fell Silent, following on from Volume I, Vargamäe in which deals with the peasantry and at the end introduces the protagonist Indrek, and Volume II whose title is simply Indrek and recounts his education in the city. Both those volumes have already been published by Vagabond Voices, and has sold well in spite of their considerable bulk. In Volume III Indrek finds himself unemployed and alone in a hostile world that is beginning to fall apart. The 1905 Revolution, which would be overshadowed later by the one in 1917, is just starting and the pentalogy is shifting from the personal and the familial to the public and societal. Ideas are driving events, and the consequences are tragic. Tammsaare entirely ignores 1917 in this pentalogy possibly because Volume III has already dealt with this subject. This volume is very much shorter than the others, and only about 70,000 words, but it is the dense and significant core of the pentalogy. It can stand on its own, but is also an integral part of the whole.
£15.76
Eyewear Publishing A Christmas Carol
Book SynopsisBeing a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known asA Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, firstpublished in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 andillustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts thestory of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visitedby the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marleyand the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.A Christmas Carol captures the heart of the holidays like noother novel.
£9.49
