Just So Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling?s witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant?s Child, the Cat that Walked by H ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
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
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soo ...Show more
The Water-Babies (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Kingsley
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Babyis a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature thro ...Show more
Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Sanditon, Lady Susan, The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen is a rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites, representing what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket. It contains not only her hilarious History of England, illustrated by her favour ...Show more
Ross Poldark: A Poldark Novel 1 by Winston Graham
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Poldark Ser.
Book 1 of the beloved Poldark novels * A forthcoming major new series on Masterpiece(tm) on PBS® The enthralling first book behind Poldark, the major new TV series from Masterpiece on PBS... In the first novel in Winston Graham's hit series, a weary Ross Poldark returns to England from war, looking fo ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Persuasionby Jane AustenAnne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her rest ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened, impoverished family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle; it follows her development and concludes in early adulthood. Frances "Fanny" Price, at age ten, is sent from her family home to live ...Show more
The Little Prince (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men- Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is senten ...Show more
Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
20.00 NZD
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 ...Show more