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Fear is the Key by Alistair MacLean
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico - and on the sea bed below it. Off the Gulf of Mexico lies a sunken DC-3. Its cargo: millions of dollars in gold ingots and jewels guarded by the remains of... -
On Sparta by Plutarch, Richard J. A. Talbert (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱718.00Plutarch’s vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of their remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta’s leaders and... -
Essays by Plutarch, Robin Waterfield (Translator), Ian Kidd (Introduction)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱847.00Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman worldPlutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into... -
A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy, Jane Kentish (Translator), Jane Kentish (Introduction)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱529.00Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings—on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality—reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession,' 'Religion and... -
Egil's Saga by Leifur Eiriksson, Bernard Scudder (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱571.00Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of... -
Misunderstanding in Moscow by Simone de Beauvoir, Terry Keefe (translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱532.00Reflective and characteristically perceptive, this exquisite novella from the philosopher and author of The Second Sex focuses on a retired French's couple's holiday to Russia. A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and... -
Ishmael: A Novel by Daniel Quinn
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱667.00One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. “A thoughtful, fearlessly... -
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows (Translator), Joanna Macy (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,299.00₱880.00A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and... -
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,399.00₱1,149.00(Available after December 10th, 2023)This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality... -
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,699.00₱1,379.00Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest... -
The Analects - Dover Thrift Editions by Confucius
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱499.00₱225.00In this excellent English translation of The Analects, or Sayings, of Confucius, readers will find a rich distillation of the timeless precepts of one of history's most influential teachers and social theorists. A Chinese philosopher who lived c. 551 to... -
Against Nature by Joris K. Huysmans
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱499.00₱329.00Duc Jean des Esseintes, the wealthy last survivor of a once-powerful family, has retreated from his bourgeois life in Paris. Overwhelmed by the absurdities and grotesqueries of human affairs, he dwells in an isolated villa, spending his days in... -
La Batarde by Violette LeDuc, Derek Coltman (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱799.00(Available after July 30th, 2023) An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a... -
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Wordsworth Classics by Thomas Hardy
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱599.00₱322.00With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the... -
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Penguin Classics by Thomas Hardy, Keith Wilson
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱594.00In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of... -
The Mabinogion - Penguin Classics by Jeffrey Gantz (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱599.00'On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other green with leaves'Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were written... -
Fairy Tales - Penguin Classics by Hans Christian Andersen
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱646.00Containing an enchanting mix of familiar favourites and hidden gems, the Penguin Classics edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales is translated by Tiina Nunnally and edited with an introduction by Jackie Wullschlager. The first writer to create... -
The Bhagavad Gita - Penguin Classics by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to... -
The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L. Byock (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱549.00One of the great books of world literature—an unforgettable tale of jealousy, unrequited love, greed, and vengeance. Based on Viking Age poems and composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend, and sheer... -
Beowulf - Penguin Classics by Unknown, Michael Alexander (Translator), Michael Alexander (Introduction)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱449.00Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the...