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The Crazy Hunter - Pushkin Classics by Kay Boyle
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱562.00At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household and dotes on her new gelding, a gift from her father. When a sudden accident... -
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Brian Karetnyk (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writerThe stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo grove, to a... -
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun, Anthea Bell (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱510.00Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped--even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the... -
War with the Newts - Penguin Modern Classics by Karel Čapek
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world... War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can... -
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various, Margaret Jull Costa
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from... -
Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various, Jay Rubin (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱634.00A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best Japanese... -
Two Bottles of Relish: The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱573.00Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short... -
The Third Girl by Agatha Christie
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone… Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now... -
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding - Poirot by Agatha Christie
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum... -
The Big Four - Poirot by Agatha Christie
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱576.00A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination. Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was... -
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱567.00The ultimate alien invasion story, Wells’s electrifying yarn has been oft imitated but never bettered. Expertly combining the minutiae of late- Victorian England with the spectacular arrival of dazzlingly imagined extra-terrestrial beings, The War... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger, P. G. Walsh
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱679.00In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and... -
The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon, Robin Waterfield, Tim Rood
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱550.00The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited at the end of the fifth century BC by a young Persian prince, Cyrus, who rose in revolt agains his brother, the King of Persia. After Cyrus' death, the army... -
Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology by Xenophon, Martin Hammond, Carol Atack
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱597.00'Who would you say knows himself?'In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was one... -
The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C. by Oxford University Press
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱599.00Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). The book features The Tale of Sinuhe, acclaimed as the... -
The Library, Books 16-20: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors by Diodorus Siculus, Robin Waterfield (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱825.00Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in EuropeThe Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our most valuable sources from ancient times. His history, in forty volumes, was intended to range from... -
Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust, William W. Batstone
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱599.00Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political degeneration of the Roman Republic. Sallust's abrupt and distinctive style is the perfect vehicle for his... -
Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai, Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱637.00Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them–a theme... -
The Secret Adversary: A Tommy & Tuppence Mystery by Agatha Christie
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Agatha Christie’s first Tommy & Tuppence book is a thrill-packed novel of international intrigue, murder and suspense. Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme –... -
Oliver Twist - Wordsworth Classics by Charles Dickens
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap Prices₱258.00Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many...