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The Histories by Herodotus - Oxford World's Classics by Herodotus, Robin Waterfield (translator), Carolyn Dewald (editor)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱676.00Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the... -
The Histories by Herodotus, Aubrey de Sélincourt (Translator)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱699.00'The first example of non-fiction, the text that underlies the entire discipline of history ... it is above all a treasure trove' -- Tom HollandOne of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of... -
Ethics - Wordsworth Classics of World Literature by Benedict De Spinoza, W.H. White (translator), A.K. Stirling (translator)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱399.00₱269.00Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Penguin Classics by Anonymous, Andrew George (translator)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱563.00The ancient Sumerian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest written stories in existence, translated with an introduction by Andrew George in Penguin Classics.Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the... -
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱599.00₱484.00'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides, Philip Vellacott (Translator)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱457.00Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (Translator), Victor Eremita (Editor)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱699.00In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters—the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply "A," and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section—Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as... -
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱599.00₱423.00'The classic tale of alien invasion, and still the best' -- The TimesThe first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works. It shows the whole of human... -
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon, Rex Warner (Translator)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱574.00In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱567.00Three masterpieces of classical tragedyContaining Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. This volume... -
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱543.00As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature.The title derives from Book XI of Homer's Odyssey (William Marris's... -
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition - Penguin Modern Classics by Anthony Burgess
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱541.00Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by... -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱879.00One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱299.00₱130.00Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when... -
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱799.00Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.At... -
The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱559.00An immaculate portrait of adolescent love from one of our most beloved novelists.'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' GuardianWhen sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of... -
Passing by Nella Larsen
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱599.00₱433.00Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱447.00The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself'Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power... -
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱299.00₱189.00Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex.Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the... -
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱599.00₱436.00The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from...