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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱541.00A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are... -
Petersburg Tales: New Translation by Nikolai Gogol, Dora O'Brien (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱449.00Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached... -
The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hugh Aplin (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱510.00During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose late... -
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱599.00The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to his noble blood, he gradually settles in and becomes an... -
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions: New Translation by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kyril Zinovieff (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱479.00In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting... -
The Adolescent: New Translation by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱665.00Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the... -
Poor People by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱523.00Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling... -
Resurrection - Penguin Classics by Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs (translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱770.00Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics.Serving on the jury at a... -
A Hero of Our Time - Oxford World's Classics by Mikhail Lermontov
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱536.00'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism... -
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev, Leonard Schapiro (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱779.00Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first... -
Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts by Alexander Griboedov, Betsy Hulick (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱779.00Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted... -
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by John Steinbeck
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,899.00₱1,479.00A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novelsCollected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of... -
Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱779.00Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land... -
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱779.00“The most influential biography of Marie Antoinette.” —Guardian“Bids fair to be the definitive life of that tragic queen.” —New York TimesInternational Bestseller: One of the great writers of the 20th century... -
The Book of Five Rings: The Strategy of the Samurai by Miyamoto Musashi
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,299.00₱979.00This classic text on samurai fighting skills delves into the mental processes and rigorous discipline which underpin this ancient art. Musashi is considered by many to have been one of the greatest swordsmen in history, a famous Japanese samurai whose... -
The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱723.00"[This book] mirrors all of Nietzsche's thought and could be related in hundreds of ways to his other books, his notes, and his letters. And yet it is complete in itself. For it is a work of art." —Walter Kaufmann in the IntroductionNietzsche... -
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱599.00₱373.00Although dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry—known in twelfth-century Provençal as "the gay science." This extensive collection of prose and verse offers a... -
Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann, R. J. Hollingdale (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱679.00A lawyer by day and a creator of a world of fantasy by night, Hoffman (1776-1822) lived a Jekyll and Hyde existence. Many of the characters in his stories are subject to a similar split personality. The duality of his nature is frequently reflected... -
Essays in Idleness and Hojoki by Kenko, Chomei, Meredith McKinney (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱576.00Two of the most important Buddhist tracts from JapanA Penguin ClassicBoth of these works on life’s fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each represents a different worldview. In Essays in Idleness, his lively and... -
The Poems by Catullus, Peter Whigham (Translator), Peter Whigham
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱718.00One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and...