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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱522.00“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who... -
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in 'the lands beyond' - countries populated... -
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Thonemann
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱741.00The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap Prices₱565.00C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine in its source... -
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen, Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱879.00Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a... -
The Travels by Marco Polo, Nigel Cliff (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱693.00Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of... -
Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱846.00Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the... -
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Bashō, Lucien Stryk (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱457.99₱457.00Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world -... -
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱783.00A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others.This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus,... -
Gisli Sursson's Saga and The Saga of the People of Eyri by Martin Regal (Translator), Judy Quinn (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱649.00These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact... -
King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, Magnus Magnusson, Hermann Pálsson
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱564.00This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led... -
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱638.00When the Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime.It was to last five years and transform him from an amiable and somewhat aimless young man into a scientific... -
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Peter Wortsman
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱749.00'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered'Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the... -
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,799.00₱1,579.00Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man,... -
On War - Penguin Classics by Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham (Translator),
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱766.00'War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to our will'Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part... -
The Rise And Fall of Athens by Plutarch
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱879.00Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.For more than... -
Six Tragedies - Oxford World's Classics by Seneca, Emily Wilson (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱599.00Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers—the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived... -
Dialogues and Letters by Seneca, C. D. N. Costa (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱551.00Included in this volume are the dialogues On the Shortness of Life and On Tranquility of Mind, which are eloquent classic statements of Stoic ideals of fortitude and self-reliance. This selection also features extracts from Natural... -
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gerald Bevan
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱651.00A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern France The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville... -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes, David Barrett (Translator), Alan Sommerstein (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱622.00Five comedies from Ancient Greece that freely blend satire and slapstick Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick...