www.bibliophilebooks.com 59994 THE CASTLE by Franz Kafka


Translated and with an introduction by John R. Williams in 2009 which reads, ‘The novel remained unfinished, indeed, it breaks off in mid- sentence. We have no indication whatever whether K will ever gain acceptance or be granted access to Klamm. Max Brod claimed that Kafka told him K was to be informed on his death bed that the Castle authorities had, exceptionally, given him permission to stay in the village.’ Kafka’s final novel was written during 1922 when he was already at an advanced stage of TB which was to kill him. The novel is enigmatic and an allegory of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire as it disintegrates into modern nation states. It is the search by a central European Jew for acceptance or perhaps it is a spiritual quest for grace or


salvation. 283pp, paperback. ONLY £4


23951 POEMS AND SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With an Introduction by Tim Cook. Shakespeare’s sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious ‘Dark Lady’.In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare’s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, ‘The Rape of Lucrece’ which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth, and ‘Venus and Adonis’ which mixes ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearean manner. ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’ is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare’s better known poetry. 208pp. Paperback. ONLY £4


75791 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF HENRY JAMES introduced by Philip Rahv


Author, essayist and critic, Henry James is one of the most prolific American authors ever to have lived. He believed that the short novel was the perfect literary form. Born in New York City, he elected to live in Europe for most of his life and often wrote about the cultural divide between the two continents. His characters experienced the same social stigmas that he was eventually to overcome while living in London. The ten novellas in this marvellous hardback omnibus are: Madame de Mauves, Daisy Miller, An International Episode, The Siege of London, Lady Barberina, The Author of Beltraffio, The Aspern Papers, The Pupil, The Turn of the Screw and The Beast in the Jungle. With biographical


introduction, 382pp. $30 NOW £9


25260 THE SYMPOSIUM AND THE DEATH OF SOCRATES by Plato Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. A group of aristocrats at a party talk about love and Socrates. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology, is Socrates’ speech in his own defence. Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates’ last day. These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. With an introduction by Jane O’Grady. 240pp in paperback. ONLY £4


75789 GREAT NOVELS OF E.M. FORSTER introduced by Louis Auchincloss


Four must-read novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View and Howards End. When a young English widow takes off on the Grand Tour and along the way marries an Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have a baby and that the baby should be raised an Italian are matters requiring immediate correction. The Longest Journey is highly autobiographical. In the third novel A Room with a View, Lucy Honeychurch has lost her Baedeker and her very proper chaperone in Florence. With the final novel, Forster established his reputation as a


writer. Who is to inherit Howards End, a charming old country house in Hertfordshire? Gold tooling. 898pp. $30 NOW £8.50


33870 MARLOWE: The Plays by Christopher Marlowe Marlowe’s characters constantly strive to break out of the social, religious, and rhetorical bonds within which they are confined. Accused during his lifetime of blasphemy and homosexuality, Marlowe still has the power to challenge our assumptions about conventional morality through his innovative theatricality. By placing less known plays such as The Massacre at Paris and Dido Queen of Carthage alongside the acknowledged masterpieces Edward II and Dr Faustus, this edition gives a full picture of Marlowe’s distinctive and provocative talent. 546pp. Paperback. ONLY £3


46366 THE WORDSWORTH BOOK OF HORROR STORIES Many classics and lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of the supernatural. From time immemorial, man the world over has drawn upon the worst fears of his conscious and subconscious mind to furnish legends of terrror. In this volume authors such as M.R.James, Le Fanu, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Bierce, Balzac, Gaskell, and many others invite you to close the curtains, lock the doors, draw the armchair closer to the blazing fire and settle down to a spine-chilling read. 1216 page paperback. ONLY £5


75463 MANSFIELD PARK: The Winchester Austen by Jane Austen With a bonded leather embossed cover, easy-to-use elastic closure, a colour map of Jane Austen’s England, an illustrated section on the church, a timeline and four clear introductions by renowned Austen scholars, here is the complete text of Mansfield Park in a modern, readable typeface. Like a slave, Fanny Price was a property, brought to Mansfield to serve the new inhabitants, ‘standing and stooping in a hot sun’ at the bidding of her Aunt Bertram. In this novel, Jane Austen shows herself aware of new movements in religion, building and gardening and seems to suggest that the best of the new can be accommodated along with what is worth keeping of the old. With beautiful endpapers, 429 pages. £12.95 NOW £5.50


75001 DALKEY ARCHIVE by Flann O’Brien


James Joyce turns up alive and well, serving drinks in an Irish pub and claiming that Ulysses was only a practical joke. St. Augustine is interrogated in an underwater cave where he announces: ‘I was a man that was very easily sunburnt.’ Though a mad scientist named De Selby is bent on destroying the human race, Mick and Hackett, the only men who can save us, are too preoccupied with the lovely Mary to concentrate on foiling him. Deriding and skewering everyone - scientists, philosophers, writers, drunkards, and priests to name only a few, Flann O’Brien’s last novel is both sublime and ridiculous. 204pp in facsimile reprinted paperback of the 1964 original. $12.95 NOW £2.75


51912 SELECTED WORKS OF D.H. LAWRENCE ‘The Captain’s Doll’, ‘The Fox’, ‘The Ladybird’, ‘St. Mawr’, ‘The Princess’, ‘The Virgin and the Gypsy’ and ‘The Escaped Cock’ are among the shorter stories included in this volume. The main body comprises his famous semi-autobiographical novel of family, class, sexuality and suffocating relationships, ‘Sons and Lovers’. ‘Women In Love’ is perhaps Lawrence’s most mature novel, a sorry tale of sexual depravity in the love of the sisters Ursula and Gudrun, for Rupert and Gerald. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, written in poetic and sexually explicit language, deals with the passionate relationship between Lady Constance Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, her emotionally and physically crippled husband’s masculine gamekeeper. 1353 pages in huge softback. ONLY £5


75308 SCARLET LETTER by Nathanial Hawthorne ‘The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.’ With watermarked endpapers, black bonded leather, decorated spine and satin bookmark, this classic novel will remind you about with the following few chapter headings - The Prison Door, The Interview, Hester at her Needle, The Elf-Child and the Minister and The Leech and His Patient. 233pp in most elegant hardback. $18 NOW £3.50


75246 TROUBLE FOR LUCIA by E. F. Benson


By the author famous for Mapp & Lucia here is a novel which may first appear mere reportage of trivia. Lucia learns to ride a bicycle and we live through the saga of Blue Birdie, Mrs Wyse’s dead budgerigar [parakeet] invoked in a séance. Lucia and Georgie renew their acquaintance with the operatic diva Olga Braceley and the composer Cortese, but nobody in Tilling believes her when she claims to have entertained a duchess over night. Lucia becomes Mayor of Tilling and Miss Mapp is appointed her Mayoress. The sixth volume in the Lucia series. 231pp in paperback reprint of the 1939 original. $12.95 NOW £2.50


53204 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behaviour, all are guaranteed to capture the imagination, stir the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the reader’s appetite for more. Short stories by a host of towering literary figures ranging from Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf. 1408pp, paperback. ONLY £5


59988 LITTLE MEN and JO’S BOYS by Louisa May Alcott


‘Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys’ and ‘Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out’, are the two American classics, brought together in one volume. Worthy sequels to ‘Little Women’ and its continuation ‘Good Wives’, the author takes the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty boys at Plumfield, now a boarding school run by Professor Bhaer and his loveable madcap wife Jo, the most fiery and free-spirited of the four March sisters. Complete and unabridged text, 511pp in paperback with woodcut illus. ONLY £2


59993 WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James


A tale of desire and possession, of love and death. An unspeakable subtext lies beneath the silence. It centres on ‘the dying girl who wants to live - to live and love.’ But those closest to her are in competition for what she can leave behind. Milly Theale, ‘the heiress of all the ages’, is imaged as a dove, a princess, a Renaissance beauty, but these symbols come at a dreadful cost. By the end of the novel we know, ‘We shall never be again as we were!’ With an introduction by Nicola Bradbury and Notes. 431pp in paperback. ONLY £2


23805 LES MISERABLES VOL.1 by Victor Hugo


One of the great Classics of Western Literature, ‘Les Miserables’ is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. 528pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


75237 ARROW OF GOLD: A Story


Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad


During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the eager youth’s intense attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause after he had hinted at being involved in vaguely illegal enterprises in the Gulf of Mexico. He later learns that he has been financed by the beautiful mistress and heiress of a rich man’s fortune, Donã Rita. When he falls in love with her, he finds himself moved absolutely by this discovery, despite the fact that this love is unrequited. In the end he is left alone with his first love, the sea. 385pp in facsimile reprinted paperback of the 1919 original.


$19.95 NOW £2.50


74726 SO LONG AS MEN CAN BREATHE: The Untold Story of


Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Clinton Heylin


Depicts the monopolising grip that the Stationers’ Company had on English publishing, and the ‘unholy alliance’ of Thomas Thorpe - publisher, George Eld - ‘booklegger’ extraordinaire and William Aspley - mysterious bookseller. The result is not only a fascinating look into the world of Elizabethan publishing but also the revelation that Shakespeare neither authorized nor knew about the first publication of the Sonnets. But that is not all. Also on this entertaining menu are an adversarial debate on the autobiographical nature of the poems and a chart of their many editions. 280 pages with all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. $24 NOW £4


Literature & Classics 65528 COMPLETE MAPP & LUCIA:


Volume One by E. F. Benson In Lucia in London, the prudish, manically ambitious Lucia launches herself into the louche world of London society. A perfect comic vehicle for Benson’s free-wheeling satire of salon societ, and of the dominant fads and movements of the 1920s, including vegetarianism, yoga, palmistry, Freudianism, séances, Post-Impressionist art and Christian Science. Includes Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp and Lucia in London. 632 page paperback. ONLY £2


65529 COMPLETE MAPP & LUCIA:


Volume Two by E. F. Benson These three wonderful comic novels, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia’s Progress and Trouble for Lucia, drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge, tea or dinner-party, church service, council meeting or art- exhibition are thrilling encounters that ensure Tilling is always on ‘a very agreeable rack of suspense’. Concentrates on the novels’ disturbing, bitchy, ‘camp’ humour whenever ‘that horrid thing which Freud calls sex is raised’. 665 page paperback. ONLY £2


72384 LADY SUSAN AND OTHER WORKS by Jane Austen


This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Lady Susan is a wickedly funny epistolary novel about a captivating but unscrupulous widow seeking to snare husbands for her daughter and herself. The Watsons explores themes of family relationships, the marriage market, and attitudes to rank, which became the hallmarks of her major novels. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort. Plus works like Catharine, Love and Freindship [sic], and The History of England. Paperback, 359pp. ONLY £2


73735 RESURRECTION by Leo Tolstoy


With an introduction by Anthony Briggs. This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution. She is found guilty on a technicality, and he determines to overturn the verdict. This pitches him into a hellish labyrinth of Russian courts, prisons and bureaucracy. Proceeds from brothel to court-room, stinking cells to offices of state, luxury apartments to filthy life in Siberia. Paperback, 466pp. ONLY £2


73737 THE ESSENTIAL KAFKA by Franz Kafka


The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation, superficially about bureaucracy. The Castle is an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject. The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? Is K opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties. Introduction by John R. Williams. 614 page paperback. ONLY £2


74973 MARK TWAIN’S MEDIEVAL


ROMANCE edited by Otto Penzler This premier anthology includes tales from Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, Frank Stockton, O. Henry and more. Here is Frank Stockton’s famous and unforgettable ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ and which of the two brothers in Stanley Ellin’s ‘Unreasonable Doubt’ shoots a bullet square in the middle of their rich uncle’s forehead? Read the chilling tale that seals an escape artist inside an airless stone cell with a heavy wooden door. These devious, classic stories leave you, the reader, to determine how they each end. 301pp. £18.99 NOW £2.25


76064 BOOK OF HORRORS edited by Stephen Jones


An original anthology of all-new horror and dark fantasy fiction in all its magnificent guises by those devoted to the Dark Side. Stephen King’s The Little Green God of Agony, Peter Crowther’s Ghosts with Teeth, Angela Slatter’s The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer and Lisa Tuttle’s The Man in the Ditch are among the 14 spine-chilling short stories. From classic pulp style to more contemporary psychological tales, one to keep by the bedside if you don’t want to sleep at night! 430pp. £18.99 NOW £5


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23997 TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson 224 page paperback.


24264 DANIEL DERONDA


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29430 SHADOWS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES


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22003 ROB ROY by Sir Walter Scott 400pp. Paperback.


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100411 RAILWAY CHILDREN by E. Nesbit 368pp.


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23777 THIRTY- NINE STEPS by John Buchan 112pp. Paperback.


23793 RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 320pp. Paperback.


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33873 STUDY IN SCARLET AND THE SIGN OF FOUR by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 224pp. Paperback.


36908 GOLDEN BOWL


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100547 MILL ON THE FLOSS by George Eliot 496pp. Paperback.


10835 TOM BROWN’S


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23964 SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgeson Burnett 224pp. Paperback.


24266 LIFE’S LITTLE IRONIES SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF THOMAS HARDY by Thomas Hardy 192pp.


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24307 CALL OF THE WILD & WHITE FANG by Jack London 256pp in paperback reprint.


52777 COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD by Katherine Mansfield 663 page paperback.


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