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Born Free: The Story of Elsa (Macmillan Collectors Library) by Joy Adamson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In 1960, Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa - the lioness she had rescued as an orphaned cub and raised to adulthood at her home in Kenya. But, as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision to return her to the wild. Since the first publicati ...Show more
Les Miserables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and l ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$15.00 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
Just So Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling (Illustrator); Marcus Clapham (Afterword by)
$15.00 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 Sonnets of Shakespeare (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$15.00 NZD
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 ...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
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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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Arthur Conan Doyle; David Stuart Davies (Afterword by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.This collection includes many of the famous cases - and g ...Show more
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Kingsley; Christina Hardyment (Introduction by); William Heath Robinson (Illustrator)
$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
$15.00 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
Peter Pan (Macmillan Collector's Library) by J. M. Barrie; Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator); Barbara Frith (Inked or colored by)
$15.00 NZD
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 ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen; Nigel Cliff (Afterword by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
$15.00 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