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Why Friendship Matters by Michele Mendelssohn (Editor)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about friendship from your favorite classic authors.Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship - from the strength of its b ...Show more
The Joy of Walking by Suzy Cripps (Editor)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Classic writers remind us to saunter, march, prowl and wander in this gorgeously curated collection of writing for the everyday walker.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This editio ...Show more
The Art of Solitude by Zachary Seager (Editor)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or ...Show more
Food for Thought by Annie Gray (Editor)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about food from your favorite classic authors.From ancient times to today's celebrity chefs, people have always been inspired to write about food. In this delectable collection, Food for Thought, food historian Annie Gray has chosen an array of material ...Show more
The Trial (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Franz Kafka
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Franz Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early twentieth-century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, ...Show more
Siddhartha (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator); John Peacock (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What is the purpose of life? Is religion the answer? How, in a world beset with misery and conflict, can we help to find inner peace? Siddhartha helped inspire the legions of counter-cultural 'hippies' and other refuseniks who challenged the Western capitalist order in the 1960s and 1970s. Brought to yo ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Emily Brontë
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontePerhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas; Peter Harness (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
I Capture the Castle (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Dodie Smith
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop Aesop; Anna South (Afterword by); Barbara Frith (Illustrator); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid a ...Show more
Time Machine (Macmillan Collector's Library) by H. G. Wells; Mark Bould (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more