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The Song of Roland - Penguin Classics by Dorothy L. Sayers (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱579.00On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant... -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Penguin Classics by Thomas Hardy
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱579.00A heartbreaking portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her... -
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱599.00Empire: ₱428.00‘Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons.’ Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte’s first novel and a poignant account of her own experience as a struggling governess, obliged to earn her living in one of the few ways open to an educated... -
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius, Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00Empire: ₱879.00The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly... -
Chronicles of the Crusades - Penguin Classics by Jean de Joinville, Geoffroy de Villehardouin, Caroline Smith (Translator), Caroline Smith (Introduction)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00Empire: ₱679.00Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Caroline SmithOriginally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western... -
The Complete Short Stories - Oxford World's Classics by Oscar Wilde, John Sloan (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱529.00Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. Admired by George Orwell and W. B. Yeats, the stories include poignant fairy-tales such as "The Happy Prince" and "The... -
Republic - Oxford World's Classics by Plato
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00Empire: ₱655.00Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the... -
Selected Tales - Oxford World's Classics by Edgar Allan Poe, David Van Leer (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00Empire: ₱599.00Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and... -
Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - Penguin Classics by J. M. Barrie, Jack Zipes (Introduction)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱455.00J.M. Barrie's classic tale of the "boy who would not grow up"Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie’s sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy hero... -
1984 - Penguin Classics by George Orwell
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱516.00'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition - Penguin Classics by Anne Frank
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱573.00Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler,... -
The House of Hunger - Penguin Archive by Dambudzo Marechera
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00‘No, I don’t hate being black. I’m just tired of saying it’s beautiful. No, I don’t hate myself. I’m just tired of people bruising their knuckles on my jaw.’A novella with the force of a screaming trumpet... -
How I Came to Know Fish - Penguin Archive by Ota Pavel
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00‘Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman’s sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries – sleep and fishing.’Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections – from magical fishing trips to... -
The Escape of Arsene Lupin - Penguin Archive by Maurice Leblanc
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody’s assistance.’In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise – or, as some would have it, a notorious criminal. We follow him on a... -
Lady L. - Penguin Archive by Romain Gary
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00‘Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale’In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and hopeless sycophants, Lady L. is... -
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven - Penguin Archive by Wu Cheng’en
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes: Sun... -
Baron Bagge - Penguin Archive by Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly... -
The Price of Freedom - Penguin Archive by Saadat Hasan Manto
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best... -
The Umbrella - Penguin Archive by Tove Ditlevsen
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00‘Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only came in contact with by chance or infrequently.’Longing shimmers from these spare but... -
The Emperor's New Clothes - Penguin Archive by Hans Christian Andersen
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱379.00Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly...Jewels in storytelling, these magical fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen were inspired by his own life as an...