The Scarlet Letter (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Jonty Claypole (Introduction by)
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathan ...Show more
All the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling
15.00 NZD
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Separated from his human parents, Mowgli is raised by wolves, mentored by the cunning panther Bagheera, and taught the Law of the Jungle by Baloo, the strict but kindly bear. But the Indian jungle is full of dangers and he must fight to survive; the tiger, Shere Khan, has sworn to kill him, the sinister ...Show more
The Greengage Summer (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rumer Godden
15.00 NZD
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When their mother is suddenly taken ill on holiday, five siblings are left to fend for themselves at the elegant, faded hotel, Les Oeillets. Under the increasingly jealous gaze of the glamorous patronne, Mademoiselle Zizi, the children gravitate towards her mysterious and charming lover, Eliot, for comf ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20.00 NZD
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This Scholastic Classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
20.00 NZD
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Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
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Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To young James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges: from his new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to herds of semi-feral catt ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oliver (AFT) Charles; Francis Darwin
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edgar Allen Poe
20.00 NZD
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Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre and otherworldly qualities, claiming ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he beca ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
15.00 NZD
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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 t ...Show more
Selected Verse: Kipling (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lizzy (INT) Rudyard; Welby Kipling
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With subjects as broad as militarism, the British Empire, childhood and death, the Selected Verse of Rudyard Kipling is a treasure trove of the Nobel Prize winner's most striking and moving poetry, dramatic monologues and ballads. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition includes an introduction by Li ...Show more