Emma (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen; David Pinching (Afterword by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)

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Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Emmaby Jane AustenEmma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as s he does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition contains lively notes and an introduction that shows how Austen brilliantly turns the mundane into the exceptional. ...Show more

The Sonnets of Shakespeare (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare

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Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

The new Pelican Shakespeare series incorporates the more than thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the acclaimed original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967.The general editors of the new series of forty volumes-the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA-have assembled a team of eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used.The new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals well into the twenty first century. ...Show more

The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling; David Stuart Davies (Afterword by); William Henry Drake (Illustrator); John Lockwood Kipling (Illustrator)

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting mongoose, little Toomai and the elephant's secret dance, and Kotick the white seal are all part of Mowgli's extraordinary journey with his animal friends. The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more. The Puffin HARDBACK 'cloth' Classics series includes: A Little Princess The Aventures of Robin Hood Anne of Green Gables Black Beauty Peter Pan Tales of the Greek Heroes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of King Arthur The Call of the Wild The Jungle Book The Secret Garden The Wind in the Willows The Wizard of Oz ...Show more

Peter Pan (Macmillan Collector's Library) by J. M. Barrie; Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator); Barbara Frith (Inked or colored by)

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Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Presented in a beautiful slip-case edition that contains new, full-color illustrations for readers aged 8 and up, J. M. Barrie's best-loved tale of Lost Boys, mermaids, pirates, and a boy who will never grow up will enchant even the oldest child at heart.   Wendy knows that all children have to grow u p...all apart from the magical Peter Pan When Peter flies through the nursery window and invites Wendy and her brothers, John and Michael, to come to Never-Never-Land, they set off on the adventure of a lifetime.   ...Show more

Classic Locked Room Mysteries (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart Davies

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Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Locked-room mysteries reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton. ...Show more

Passing by Nella Larsen

$18.00 NZD

$20.00 (10% off)

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age. When childhood frien ds Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who has no idea that she is African American, Clare has fully embraced her ability to "pass" as a white woman. Irene, also light-skinned and living in Harlem, is shocked by Clare's rejection of her heritage, though she too passes when it suits her needs. This encounter sparks an intense relationship between the two women who, as acclaimed critic and novelist Darryl Pinckney writes in his insightful introduction, reflect Larsen's own experience of being "between black and white, and culturally at home nowhere." In a culture intent on setting boundaries, Clare and Irene refuse to adhere to expectations of gender, race, or class, culminating in a tragic clash of identities, as their relationship swings between emotional hostility and intense attraction. ...Show more

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

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$20.00 (10% off)

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Mary Seacole left her native Jamaica to travel through the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Central America and to England. Keen to offer her services to English troops in the Crimea War, she was at first refused official support. Undaunted she went anyway and set up her famous hotel catering for British soldiers. She supplied food, drink and welcome respite from the front line. She also tended to wounded soldiers and dispensed medicine in the teeth of battle. Despite her invaluable contribution, she returned to England penniless and in ill health. Thankfully her astonishing achievements were acknowledged and she became the toast of London society. ...Show more

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome

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$20.00 (10% off)

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features illustrations by A. Frederics and an afterword by David Stuart Davies.Join our young heroes J., George and Harris (not forgetting Montmorency, the mischievous, irascible fox terrier) as they take a boating holiday along the Thames. Their aim is to escape the weary workaday world and improve their health, but they are ill prepared for the various escapades, difficulties and vicissitudes that they encounter along the watery way. The adventures of these incompetent innocents abroad are magnified to epic proportions by the storyteller, J. His narration gives the book not only a wonderful endearing freshness but also a series of hilarious moments of timeless comedy. ...Show more

Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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$20.00 (10% off)

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

There are lots of new characters to get to know as well as many much loved ones to meet again in Anne of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery's sequel to Anne of Green Gables.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon mar kers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Anne Montgomery is now sixteen and preparing to take up her new role as a teacher in the local school. She has her best friend Diana Barry by her side and Gilbert Blythe, her childhood enemy, who is now a trusty ally and a fellow teacher. As impulsive as ever, Anne launches into her new career with characteristic vigour. ...Show more

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Category: Collectors Library

Uncle Tom's CabinBy Harriet Beecher Stowe

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Macmillan Collector's Library HB) by William Blake; William Blake (Illustrator); Peter Harness (Introduction by)

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$20.00 (10% off)

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as 'The Lamb', 'The Chimney-Sweeper' and 'The Tiger'. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has a foreword by Peter Harness. Blake's work is instantly recognizable by its flamboyance and inventiveness. This gorgeous edition contains stunning reproductions of the fifty-four plates of the poems and illustrations together, which Blake etched himself and coloured by hand. Each has the poem printed on the facing page. Whilst Songs of Innocence captures the innocence of childhood, Songs of Experience is its contrary sequel. ...Show more

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

$20.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

"It would have been far better if you had never been born." Esther, at 14, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love, and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty, and secrets threaten to destroy Esther's world. Are the walls of Bleak House strong enough to protect her and her new friends from such powerful forces? The reader will be caught up in an unfolding mystery, full of surprises. Perhaps the biggest mystery of all is: Who is Nemo? ...Show more