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Little Birds - Penguin Modern Classics by Anais Nin
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱549.00The inspiration for the six-part series “Little Birds” from Sophia Al-Maria.These thirteen erotic short stories by the acclaimed author of Henry and June explore the nature of desire, taboo, and female sensuality.From the beach towns of... -
Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,399.00₱1,079.00In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations—which he calls "admirations"—of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In... -
The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱735.00Here is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus' timeless history of three of Rome's most memorable emperors. Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power, writes caustically... -
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert by Bede, Judith McClure (Editor), Roger Collins (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱659.00The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, in which... -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe, Anthony Bale
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱610.00"Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!"The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Bookdescribes the... -
The Essential Mòzi: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings by Mo Zi, Chris Fraser (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱736.00'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world'The Mòzi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical,... -
Lives of the Caesars - Oxford World's Classics by Suetonius
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱646.00The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of... -
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile - Penguin Modern Classics by Francoise Sagan
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Brilliantly capturing her young narrator's voice, Sagan's stiletto-sharp novella of entitlement, impetuosity and cruel tragedy on the Riviera is an ice-cool slice of essential summer fiction. Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence... -
Day of the Oprichnik - Penguin Modern Classics by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of 2011.“Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's greatest writers, and this novel is one of his best . . . A joy to read—more entertaining, dynamic, engaging, and deeply hilarious than a dystopian novel... -
The Homeric Hymns by Michael Crudden
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱599.00Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱527.00Crossley-Holland—the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts—introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.About the... -
The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot, Miles Taylor
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱539.00At a time when constitutional issues are assuming a greater importance in public life than they have held for perhaps 25 years, it seems a particularly apt moment to re-publish Walter Bagehot's classic analysis of the constitution. Major changes to the... -
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Classics Series) by Erskine Childers, Erskine Childers (Introduction)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth century, when Britain shared a tense rivalry with the Kaiser's Germany. Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers is lured... -
The Age of Bede by Bede
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱679.00This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the... -
The Waves - Penguin Modern Classics by Virginia Woolf
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱499.00A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics. More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of... -
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00‘Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that,... -
Stoner by John Williams, John McGahern (Introduction)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱869.00Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Penguin Modern Classics by George Orwell
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Orwell’s brilliantly bleak future vision of totalitarianism is arguably the greatest of all literary dystopias, contriving to look back to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s whilst simultaneously predicting with uncanny accuracy the worst excesses... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions,... -
The Invention Of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱520.00Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a...