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A Christmas Carol (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Introducing a bold, bright new take on your favorite books. A collection that celebrates color and literature at once! Enjoy the bright golden glow of the holidays with this classic Christmas tale.Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts ...Show more
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Eva Ibbotson; Amanda Craig (Introduction by)
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg, from beloved author Eva Ibbotson.A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning Eva Ibbots ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.Part of the Macmillan Colle ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. "Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: near fine
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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Peter (AFT) James; Harness Joyce
14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
James Joyce's first novel follows the life of Stephen Dedalus, an artistic and fiercely individual young man. Along the way, Stephen learns to negotiate the 'snares of the world', to avoid the pitfalls of his dysfunctional family, his terrifying and repressive boarding school, and the various beautiful ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad (Macmillan Collector's Library) by A. E. Housman
19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of the Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more